Morning Medicine

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Heart Sounds

A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the
little ones' chests would plug the stethoscope into their
ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes
would always light up with awe.

But she never got a response to equal four year old David's.
Gently he tucked the stethoscope in his ears and placed the
disk over his heart.

"Listen", she said, "What do you suppose that is?"

He drew his eyebrows together in a puzzled line and looked
up as if lost in the mystery of the strange tap-tap-tapping
deep in his chest. Then his face broke out in a wondrous
grin. "Is that Jesus knocking?" he asked.