Editor’s Note: This is the third post in our series featuring healthcare workers in our TCS family. You can read the other posts in the series here and here.

Written by Brenna Richmon

With the arrival of Spring weather, our family has been enjoying many neighborhood walks.

I watch David and Flannery walk hand-in-hand, deep in conversation. The topics recently have been future-oriented: colleges, degrees, careers. I remember those same walks with my mom, discussing that oh-so-important question: What do you want to be when you grow up?

To my mother’s delight, I became a nurse, like her. The work was intense, but rewarding. I knew that God had uniquely equipped me for the role. After 8 years, three jobs and three children, it was time to pause my nursing career to focus on my family. I am so thankful for those sweet years at home. It was truly a gift. However, I missed my identity as a nurse, a significant part of who God created me to be.

In a recent turn of events that could only be orchestrated by a Sovereign God, a conversation with Trinity member Emily Ryan landed me a new job working a family-friendly schedule just blocks from my home. God made it perfectly clear- it was time to put scrubs back on.

One week after the first Washington COVID case, I reentered the workforce as an RN. And then, pandemic.

I trust God’s timing completely. He has a purpose in my return to work at this pivotal time. I’m honored to do this job. I’m honored to be part of a profession that is on the frontline of this war. I’m also scared. I’m grieved. I’m overwhelmed. I long for the day when all things will be made new- when every tear will be dried.

Please pray for healthcare workers. Pray for peace, for safety, for resources, for strength. Pray for our families. I find comfort and confidence in your prayers.

There is comfort and confidence in knowing that God has been working in each one of us since the beginning- forming us in our mother’s womb, calling to us on family walks, instructing, preparing and equipping us for this very moment in time- to do His good work. We get to love the vulnerable, comfort the scared, heal the sick. What a privilege that is.