Brenda Aycock: Worshipping God through her work
___WACO--Brenda Aycock moves quickly and purposefully, a yellow tunic flowing out behind her like a superhero's cape.
___She has a bright, open countenance coupled with an intense seriousness as she goes about her work as a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco.
___Aycock says she has the "best job there is on Earth," but it's not necessarily where she wanted to be spending large portions of her ti
me.
___"I've encountered the situation in life where I can't be the one who is always taking care of my children," she said. After years as a stay-at-home mom, divorce made working outside the home a necessity.
___The young mother, however, came to see her situation through eyes of service. "I've had to rely upon others to meet (my children's) needs when I can't do that, and it's easily transferred to me that I can be at the bedside of these babies whose parents are hurting and just helpless and unable to be the caregiver for their children.
___"I can be the one who loves them in their pain and loves their children in their needs," Aycock said. "It's just a real joy."
___Aycock's faith plays an important role in her work as a nurse. "As a Christian, I fell in love with the sciences as a form of worship, just in awe of God as creator," she said. "I wanted to be able to show God's love to people, and I just felt called to nursing very strongly."
___She seeks to communicate faith, encouragement and comfort to the parents of newborns in the intensive care unit, but they give her something as well.
___The father of a patient recently came to the unit, where his baby had been sleeping all morning. When the dad got there and opened the porthole on the incubator, he put his face down close to the child and started talking. The baby's face changed, his eyebrows lifted in recognition of the voice that he had heard while still in his mother's womb.
___"This is just high worship to me," Aycock said. "It is just so rich, pure joy."
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