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🗓️ 30 April 2022

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:09.7	Our reading titled Servants of the Night was written by Patricia Rabin.
0:15.5	It's 3 a.m. at an acute care hospital.
0:19.5	A worried patient presses the call button for the fourth time in an hour.
0:25.0	The night shift nurse answers without complaint.
0:28.9	Soon another patient is screaming, crying for attention.
0:33.4	The nurse isn't surprised.
0:35.9	She requested the night shift five years ago to avoid her hospital's daytime frenzy.
0:42.3	Then the reality hit.
0:44.5	Nightwork often meant taking on extra tasks, such as lifting and turning patients by herself.
0:52.0	It also meant closely monitoring patients' conditions so physicians could be notified
0:57.3	in emergencies. Booyed by close friendships with her nighttime coworkers, this nurse still
1:05.1	struggles to get adequate sleep. Often she asks her church for prayer, seeing her work as vital. She said,
1:14.3	Praise God, their prayers make a difference. Her praise is good and right for a night worker,
1:22.1	as well as for all of us. The psalmist wrote in Psalm 134, praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,
1:31.8	who minister by night in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the
1:40.0	Lord. This Psalm, written for the Levites, who served as temple watchmen, acknowledged their
1:48.7	vital work, protecting the temple by day and night. In our non-stop world, it feels proper to
1:56.5	share this Psalm, especially for nighttime workers. yet every one of us can praise God in the
2:03.5	night. As the Psalm adds, may the Lord bless you from Zion, he who is the maker of heaven and earth.
2:22.5	Today's Our Daily Bread scripture reading is Psalm 134.
2:29.5	Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the house of the Lord.
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