After 2 weeks of classroom orientation and 9 days of field training...I finally cleared and was released to work in the field. Exciting and intimidating. No more..."trainee" errors allowed. This is it. I am responsible. I cleared on Monday at about 1715. I ran my first shift from 1530-0630 Tuesday. It went well...I think I only made one paramedic mad. I handed him the IV tubing the wrong way...my bad...I was nervous. Not only did I hand it to him wrong, but I also tied a knot in it. (oops...it was fixable though) then I couldn't get a blood pressure after two tries. I finally got it once we stopped at the hospital. But I learned something...so thats good! I will run my first regularly scheduled shift tonight. I don't have a partner yet, so either I will sit around the station all night and do nothing, or I will jump on with someone else who doesn't have a partner. I still have a lot to learn and get experience in to be good and not make people upset...but that takes time and thinking logically. Hopefully it will come fast. Thankfully I was able to get the schedule I hoped for that will allow me to work my other job, and still be involved in bible study and church. I will try and get some pictures up soon...a blog with no pictures is pretty boring. Thanks for your prayers regarding getting this job and going through training! I will keep you all updated on what kind of calls I am running as I can if you are interested...here is a list of what we did on Tuesday:
1. Slip and fall
2. Possible shoulder dislocation (ouch!)
3. Dystonic reaction*
4. DOA (Dead on Arrival)
*Dystonic Reaction: A state of abnormal tension or muscle tone, similar to dystonia, produced as a side effect of certain antipsychotic medications. (http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dystonic+reaction)
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Field Training
Well, the first week of field training is over. That means I finally got to hit the streets of Los Angeles in an rig (ambulance for those of you who may not be as familiar with the EMS lingo (EMS=Emergency Medical Services). Today we got 2 good fire calls. I got to do some mapping (give directions to the driver...as in...ok here is where we need to be in 8 minutes...figure out how to get him there!) This is something I really need to work on...not knowing the area that well and the map and the streets not necessarily being the same thing....well...you know...I got him turned the wrong way at least twice. Thankfully only one of those times was when we were actually enroute to an emergency...which ended up not being an emergency. Overall it has been a great week. God has been so gracious. I am really enjoying getting to know my co-workers, understanding the whole system better, learning how to map, fill out paper work...and most of all...how to work the gurney! (Those things are harder to work than it seems!) It has been fun, sad, hard, frustrating at times...but I am so thankful to be able to be doing what I love to do and be able to use the traning that God has provided me with! Thanks for reading! Have a great week!!!!
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Answer to the Question
Steve: Here is the answer to your question about the Golden Rule.
What is commonly known as the "Golden Rule" is kind of a shorthand term for one of Christ's teachings. The common way to define the Golden Rule is to "treat others the way you want to be treated." In the Sermon on the Mount recorded in Matthew chapters 5-7 Christ says "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12) Dr. John MacArthur's study notes on this passage states "Versions of the Golden Rule existed before Christ, in the rabbinic writings and even in Hinduism and Buddhism. All of them cast the rule as a negative command, sugh as Rabbi Hillel's version, "What is hateful to yourself do not to someone else." Jesus made it a positive command, enriching its meaning and underscoring that this one imperative aptly summarizes the whole gist of the ethical principles contained in the Law and the Prophets." (pg. 1401 study notes in the MacArthur Study Bible copyright 1997 by Word Publishing (a division of Thomas Nelson). This same principle was brought up many more times in the New Testament (see Luke 6:31, Matthew 22:40, Romans 13:8, Galatians 5:14. and 1 Timothy 1:5). Basically all of these Scriptures command us to love our neighbors as ourselves. There are many more instances of this principle. Many of you are probably familiar with the story of the Good Samaritan, this is a fine example of a man treating someone else the way he would want to be treated.
All of this is well and good, I treat other people nice...they like me...God likes me...or does He? Just treating people the way I want to be treated is not enough to get on good terms with God. Remember...God is holy, just and pure and cannot tolerate ANY sin whatsover. So what does that mean for me? I tried to be good right? Isn't that all God really wants...for us to make a good effort? After all none of us is perfect. The answer is NO. God is just, He cannot justly hide our sin under the rug and pretend that it never existed just because we "made a good effort." The truth is you are deceiving yourself into believing that you are even trying to please God. Romans 3:10-11 says "There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS AFTER GOD." (emphasis added) We do not seek after God much less try to please Him on our own.
The only way to please God is to accept the subsitutionary death of Christ on our behalf for the forgiveness of our sins.
Romans 5:6-10 says that "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified (declared righteous) by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God throug the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (New American Standard Bible)
1 John 5:11-12 states that "...God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
So in short the Golden Rule is a summary of the "ethical principles contained in the Law and the Prophets" as Dr. MacArthur so aptly put it. But all the ethics in the world will do nothing to bring you into a personal relationship with God. If you have any more questions please feel free to post them...I will do my best to answer them!! (That goes for any of you too!!)
What is commonly known as the "Golden Rule" is kind of a shorthand term for one of Christ's teachings. The common way to define the Golden Rule is to "treat others the way you want to be treated." In the Sermon on the Mount recorded in Matthew chapters 5-7 Christ says "In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12) Dr. John MacArthur's study notes on this passage states "Versions of the Golden Rule existed before Christ, in the rabbinic writings and even in Hinduism and Buddhism. All of them cast the rule as a negative command, sugh as Rabbi Hillel's version, "What is hateful to yourself do not to someone else." Jesus made it a positive command, enriching its meaning and underscoring that this one imperative aptly summarizes the whole gist of the ethical principles contained in the Law and the Prophets." (pg. 1401 study notes in the MacArthur Study Bible copyright 1997 by Word Publishing (a division of Thomas Nelson). This same principle was brought up many more times in the New Testament (see Luke 6:31, Matthew 22:40, Romans 13:8, Galatians 5:14. and 1 Timothy 1:5). Basically all of these Scriptures command us to love our neighbors as ourselves. There are many more instances of this principle. Many of you are probably familiar with the story of the Good Samaritan, this is a fine example of a man treating someone else the way he would want to be treated.
All of this is well and good, I treat other people nice...they like me...God likes me...or does He? Just treating people the way I want to be treated is not enough to get on good terms with God. Remember...God is holy, just and pure and cannot tolerate ANY sin whatsover. So what does that mean for me? I tried to be good right? Isn't that all God really wants...for us to make a good effort? After all none of us is perfect. The answer is NO. God is just, He cannot justly hide our sin under the rug and pretend that it never existed just because we "made a good effort." The truth is you are deceiving yourself into believing that you are even trying to please God. Romans 3:10-11 says "There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS AFTER GOD." (emphasis added) We do not seek after God much less try to please Him on our own.
The only way to please God is to accept the subsitutionary death of Christ on our behalf for the forgiveness of our sins.
Romans 5:6-10 says that "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified (declared righteous) by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God throug the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life." (New American Standard Bible)
1 John 5:11-12 states that "...God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
So in short the Golden Rule is a summary of the "ethical principles contained in the Law and the Prophets" as Dr. MacArthur so aptly put it. But all the ethics in the world will do nothing to bring you into a personal relationship with God. If you have any more questions please feel free to post them...I will do my best to answer them!! (That goes for any of you too!!)
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