Prayers for Surgery Day and for Every Day

Today is surgery day:  not my own surgery, but my sister's.  Oddly, today is also a surgery day for the husband of a colleague at work.  Both surgeries are fairly major, but both are also fairly routine these days.  My sister's surgery is now outpatient; when my grandmother had a similar surgery in the early 90's, she was in the hospital for a week.

Today I'm praying for the steady hand of surgeons, the careful analysis of anesthesiologists, for all of the support staff--let them all be patient and caring and the best version of themselves.

In many ways, it's not a bad prayer for all of us, for any day.  Let us be steady in the work that we know how to do, the work we've been trained to do.  Let us use all the tools at our disposal to do the analysis to know what is needed to do the work effectively and safely.  Let us all be patient and caring.

Each and every day, let us be the best version of ourselves.

An update:  both surgeries went well, and doctors expect a full recovery for both patients.