{"id":1359,"date":"2015-05-31T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeold.tadtime.dev\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2015-05-31T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:02:05","slug":"saturday-may-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/saturday-may-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep, Down, Dark<\/span> \u00a0 In his book Deep, Down, Dark about the thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped and then rescued after sixty-nine days from the Copiapo San Jose mine in 2010, Hector Tobar describes how people can pull together and periodically fall apart while making a miracle happen. \u00a0This last week our team screened a great deal of people and promised to try to surgically fix a few. \u00a0Then came the execution part.<\/span> \u00a0 If I didn’t understand how lucky and pampered I am at home, I sure do now. \u00a0We were Deep in wounds without adequate retractors. \u00a0Down was electricity, suction strength and working drills. \u00a0Dark in the wound without any type of adequate lighting made for very stressful conditions. \u00a0Our prime directives were to do more good than harm, teach the young doctors and show respect to our hosts. \u00a0Like the miners, I felt moments that I was going to fail, and though the danger was not to me, someone’s life and health were certainly at risk if I did. \u00a0But also like the miners, I found my way when I remembered success would not come because of me. \u00a0It came because of my reliance on asking for help.<\/span> \u00a0 What a fantastic team was around me. \u00a0Drs. Isidor and Gerald, the anesthesia team, the scrub techs Boaz and Albert, OR director Mr. Lema and all the nurses. \u00a0Our American team, Brandon and Chad, Julie and Emily all pitched in, supporting from behind us, or critical to getting the right equipment in my hands or retracting tissues, suctioning and cleaning bone for a fusion. \u00a0Gayle is and forever will be the Angel Rock of HOPE and came through as only she can. \u00a0My deep gratitude and respect to all for your giving ways and for your sacrifices.<\/span> \u00a0 I suspect all of you know from where the most important help came.<\/span> \u00a0 All praise be to God. \u00a0Thank You for Your guidance and strength, Your wisdom and power, Your peace and grace. \u00a0Thank You for bringing me here, for providing the biology of healing ways and for giving us the talents we all share. \u00a0Thank You for Your son, Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice forever reminds us of the importance of infinite and unconditional love, and the power of forgiveness.<\/span> \u00a0 Peace be with all of you.<\/span> \u00a0 Ralph Reeder<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 Sent from my iPad<\/span> \u00a0 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: \u00a0This E-mail (includinattachments) is covered by the Electronic CommunicatiPrivacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Sections\u00a02510-2521<\/a>, is confidential and may be legally privileged. \u00a0If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. \u00a0Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error then delete it. \u00a0Tha<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deep, Down, Dark \u00a0 In his book Deep, Down, Dark about the thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped and then rescued after sixty-nine days from the Copiapo San Jose mine in 2010, Hector Tobar describes how people can pull together and periodically fall apart while making a miracle happen. \u00a0This last week our team screened … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}