<\/a><\/p>\nThis, of course, is the destiny of each one of us, but it\u2019s rare that we catch a glimpse of it. We don\u2019t see or share in the suffering of other people on a daily basis. Those people, the sick, scared and wounded, are behind closed doors, and we just imagine that they don\u2019t exist, or that they inhabit a land we will never visit, but this isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
I was driven to the ER by a cab that day, and I could see the driver\u2019s eyes in the rear view mirror, concerned, looking back at me. (It turns out I had a respiratory virus that was making it very difficult to breathe.) I\u2019m sure he could see that I was scared, and gently he began to speak to me, \u201cIt is okay, you are going to be alright, my friend, I can see that. You are going to be fine. Okay? No, I do not need your money. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to help.\u201d He smiled at me and nodded his head, \u201cYes, go now, get better, you have a life yet to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was as if a saint had taken me in transit, and his blessing, his encouragement was a beautiful miracle unto itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ER at the Toronto General, or anywhere in this city for that matter, is utter bedlam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3402,1039,3401,177,3397,2294,118,3395,3400,585,1250,632,2639,3403,2189,2286,151,1241,1964,55,3398,1199,3399,38,3394,3396],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelmurray.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}