Healing The Relationship | Ellie Braun-Haley |
Relationships can become damaged over the years. I recently was encouraged to repair one. This was due to a remark by a doctor at a Walk-In clinic. The doctor asked me about my regular family doctor. I responded: "I'm not seeing him. He's changed. He seems distant and not at all like he used to be." The doctor at the walk in clinic said to me. "No. he has not changed, it is you who have changed." I thought, "This is weird. I never mentioned names or locations." However, the conversation was glued to me, enough so that I was motivated to do something. I began thinking about all of the time my family doctor had put into helping me remain in good health. I felt inspired to thank him and perhaps repair our damaged relationship. I was moving yet why leave with negative feelings between us? I bought him a gift then wrote to him looking back on our doctor patient history. I told him he had made a difference in my life. I became enthusiastic about what I was doing and felt my discontentment dissolving. Things he had said to annoy me were shifting into a fog and I was only remembering the good! What a great feeling! Why on earth do we harbour bad memories? Since I really did need to see a doctor, I made my appointment with the old family doctor. The last time I had seen him he was agitated and speaking in a negative manner so I didn't know what to expect when he opened the door, knowing I was sitting there waiting to see him. He came in all smiles. He was so positive. I was amazed and pleased. Is it possible my recent positive attitude reached him and affected him? I was astonished. He had become the doctor I knew long ago. I gave him a little angel clip to put on his sun visor and his brilliant grin uplifted me! As I handed him the wrapped gift and card I was so happy I had filled his note with positive memories! Our relationship is repaired. And he has been such an angel for me over the next two weeks when once again I had to call on his services. Strangely he truly has become once again the smiling, friendly doctor I described in my card. Talk about prophetic! We are each capable of helping to heal relationships. And I am thinking the healing can begin at a distance. I am still wondering if God encouraged the remarks from the walk-in-clinic doctor, after all he did not have a clue who we were talking about. I do not know but I am grateful for his remarks.
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