@drleewarren: I used to think that if I just did the right thing and stayed a nice guy, people would be nice to me too. It took almost getting blown up in Iraq to learn that’s not how it works. I’m a brain surgeon who did 200 surgeries in a tent hospital during the war. One day we were getting ready to operate when a truck bomb tried to drive through the gate 200 yards away. Twenty-six people were killed. We spent the next day and a half operating, trying to save the rest, including the ones who had been trying to kill us. I was furious. We were there to serve them. Why would someone try to blow up the hospital? A chaplain reminded me of John 15:18- “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” Jesus never did anything wrong. They still killed Him. Then the colonel said the simplest, most clarifying thing: “There’s a war on.” Not everything is about you (or me). People are stressed, wounded, and in the middle of their own battles. Sometimes, no matter how right you do things, someone will still try to blow you up: emotionally, relationally, spiritually. There’s a spiritual war on. Just because you’re a really nice person doesn’t mean the war stops. Just because you do the right thing doesn’t mean you won’t get attacked. But we still do the right thing anyway. That’s the job. Hit follow. Together we’ll build brains that can navigate a hard world where there’s a war on, and keep choosing the right thing on purpose. Share this with someone who needs the reminder, and save it for the next you need it. Click the link in my bio to learn more about self-brain surgery. Let’s get after it.

Dr. Lee Warren | Neurosurgeon

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