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Finding God in the Hospital

by Tatiana Bouteneff

Last week I had a visit with a patient who had been in the hospital about ten days, I think, and hadn’t been visited by a chaplain. I just wanted to check in. He was lying on his side, facing away from the door. I see God’s hand in chaplaincy work so often, because so often the patient that I just happen to visit is the patient who, it turns out, really needs it.

Tatiana Bouteneff

After some 35 years as a teacher and school administrator, Tatiana Bouteneff graduated from this career to a calling. She trained as a hospital chaplain, completing her clinical pastoral education at two different hospitals, and was commissioned by the Orthodox Church in America in June 2015.

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