# @hopewdm on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CI7CmsDjZCG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16337974-hopewdm-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-12-18T02:34:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** HOPE (@HopeWDM) — https://gondola.cc/HopeWDM

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As a Family Doctor serving the underserved in Des Moines, normal days can be hard for my patients. This year has been harder. Food pantries are low on goods and a lot of my patients are out of work, often afraid to come to the doctor.

I feel God’s presence on good days. We do OB in our office, and there is nothing happier than seeing new babies. There is also joy when a patient with COVID-19 fights the virus and wins. God was there this morning when I walked in and saw my colleague studying the Bible at his desk before going to see patients. God is there as my Life-Group prays for me and my colleagues every week to stay safe. He’s there when we find a homeless mom a place to stay, or when we get a coat for a child, or even when we pray with a patient who needs the comfort of God’s word.

I feel God’s presence on bad days, when patients we’ve known and cared for struggle until they can’t breathe on their own. He’s there when we are fearful to take the virus home to those we love. It’s because I have faith I can put on a mask every day and smile with my eyes.

Sometimes I feel as if this virus is a great battle. There are days we win and days we lose, but God is right there, stethoscope in hand, battling with us. I still remember on a particularly hard day my colleague and I were walking to our car and a random stranger stopped and gave us flowers and thanked us for being frontline workers. That was a total God-moment. How could they possibly have known how much we needed that?

Resilience, Patience and Hope are my three words for 2020.
With staff falling ill and others resigning, we have learned to be RESILIENT. We get up, put on our PPE, and figure out how best to take care of patients. We do that even if it means seeing them in their cars, on the phone, or over Zoom.
God teaches us to be PATIENT and kind. Every day I see kindness when people drop off donations for a family that needs it or take groceries to a staff member that has fallen ill. We also have to be PATIENT and wait for bodies to heal and vaccines to be made.
God is our HOPE.. hope for a better tomorrow, when we can come together as friends and family once again. 

Dr. Kyla C.
#PiecesFromHope

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