24

24 is broadcast in real time with each season depicting a 24-hour period in the life of Jack Bauer, who works with the United States government as it fights fictitious terrorist threats to the United States.  Each episode is adrenaline filled and terrifying as Jack escapes death and saves the world.

Of course Jack has never tried hospital chaplaincy.  That will probably be saved for the eighth and most exciting final season. Because really Jack, compared to our 24 hours on call, your little missions look like child's play.

Los Angeles, New York, DC?  Come on.  Everyone knows the real danger zone is Spartanburg.

Tortured by the Chinese Government?  Please.  Have you ever been in Neuro  ICU all night, got to sleep at 4 am and had oncology page you at 4:55?  Now that is real torture.

CTU agents sold you out Jack?  How about having 3 male security guards send you into the halls alone  at 1 am to clear a crowd of  30+ hysterical family members.

And with all your terrorist stopping and gun waving, have you ever sat in a room with a doctor to tell someone their wife just died?  

      Have you ever patted the back of a mother who was wiping blood off her 12 year old son's face while she told him goodbye?  

      Have you comforted parents whose adult son was killed by a bullet two years after their other son died of liver failure?  

      Have you been hugged by a sweaty RN who just spent 45 minutes doing CPR? Have you triaged spiritual care for multiple car wreck survivors? 

      Have you ever talked anyone into stopping futile, heroic measures so their loved one can pass away in peace.  

      Have you hopped over blood puddles in a trauma bay? Or attempted a stroke assessment on a patient who can't talk?  

      Or giggled at a man so grateful to be ok after swerving to miss a deer and hitting a tree. - "Thank you doctor, thanks to all you nurses, thank you all of you wonderful people..."  

      Have you ever left everything you had physically and emotionally "on the field" and limped home?

That was my last 24 hours. Eat your heart out Jack Bauer.

Take your positions; then stand still and watch the Lord’s victory. He is with you. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you!”  2 Chronicles 20:17

thank you for the 24 idea Sandy!  I was just waiting for a day that did it justice.