20240324 Lamentations 4 – Lament unearths our Idols.
A young doctor got her first job as a surgeon in a large hospital. To outsiders, she was beautiful, intelligent, and successful. She began to experience unbearable panic at work so she sought counseling. Being a surgeon, we assume that she was in a high-stress working environment. She interacts with life-threatening critical conditions. However, this was not her problem. In counseling, she explored the source of the panic. After a few weeks of meeting, the pattern that emerged was that the panic arose from tiny things. For example, one day, she had recorded a detail of a patient’s medical history incorrectly. There was no harm done. She realized her mistake that same day and corrected it immediately. She did not get in trouble. Even if the error had gone uncorrected, no harm would have come to the patient. It was inconsequential. Her colleagues would all have agreed. Yet, this is not how this young doctor experienced it. She panicked over it for several hours that day, and it had not...