(For our internet guests, the following text is taken from the printed version of the Prayer Guide we are using for the 50 Days of Prayer and Fasting. Feel free to interact by leaving comments on this page!)

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~Florence Nightingale

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest…. ~William Osler

Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring. ~Sharon Hudacek, “A Daybook for Nurses”

A nurse is compassion in scrubs. ~Lexie Saige

From the Word:

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 (NIV) 

Prayer Points:

• Pray that nurses will have wisdom
• Pray that they will have patience
• pray that those nurses who don’t know Jesus will receive Him as Lord and Saviour
• Pray that God’s compassion and love will flow through them.
• Pray for protection from the many diseases and infections they come into contact with every day and for their families.