There have been good days when I've taken time to stand a moment at the chapel entrance in Methodist Hospital Houston. I'd read words from a poem written by Dr. Hyla S. Watters, a Methodist missionary and Chief Surgeon of Wuhu Hospital on the Yanhtze River during the WWII era.

The Hospital Speaks

I stand by the side of a current

That's deeper by far than the sea

And storm beaten craft of every draught

Come in to be healed by me

But some have more grief than pain

God help me make whole both body and soul

Before they go out again

Dr. Hyla S. Watters

We pray and build hospitals; that's always made a great deal of sense to me as a good theology about being the people of God.