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These devotions are targeted specifically for you, the healthcare professional, and the challenges unique to you that you face on a day-to-day basis. You can sign-up here to receive these devotions through a weekly email or you can come back to this page to read the weekly devotion online. We hope you are encouraged and inspired by them, and that you can gain insight and wisdom from others who have gone through the same challenges that you face in the healthcare industry today.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him" (James 1:5, KJV).

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Time Enough

By Al Weir, MD | May 6, 2025

What does it take to make a patient, or friend, or child, or spouse feel like you’ve spent adequate time with them?

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Airport Happiness

By Al Weir, MD | April 29, 2025

Why should I struggle to be a witness for Christ when most people are happy for most of their lives without Him?

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Foundational Gratitude

By Al Weir, MD | April 22, 2025

“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior” (Habakkuk 3:17-18, NIV).

A Pass-through

By Al Weir, MD | April 17, 2025

“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you…and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:2-3, NIV).

Hope

By Al Weir, MD | April 8, 2025

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10, NKJV).

Until It Hurts

By Al Weir, MD | April 2, 2025

“Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on” (Mark 12:43b-44, NIV).

When Helping Hurts

By Al Weir, MD | March 25, 2025

“The Lord said to me, ‘Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites…’” (Hosea 3:1, NIV).

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A Switch Too Far

By Al Weir, MD | March 18, 2025

“You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions” (Mark 7:8, NIV).

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A Dangerous Allegory

By Al Weir, MD | March 13, 2025

“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith…” (1 Peter 5:8-9, NIV).

Canyon Living

By Al Weir, MD | March 4, 2025

“This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer a short time in various trials” (1 Peter 1:6, NET).

Moabites

By Al Weir, MD | February 25, 2025

“Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves” (Romans 13:1-2, NIV)

Sidewalk Man

By Al Weir, MD | February 18, 2025

“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers…” (Luke 10:30b, BSB).