A site dedicated to spiritual development and well being.  It takes a different look at what really motivates people.  It is intended to help build ones self-esteem and self-worth.  It will also address issues of grief resolution and anger management.

It has been a long time since this site has been updated.  We will try to do better in the future.

My name is Vernon Buntin.  I am a Christian Minister and a Registered Nurse.  I have been in the ministry for over twenty-five years.  I do not pastor, but I do preach from time to time at various places.  Regularly I minister with my wife at the Bowery Mission on the second Wednesday of the month, in NYC.  We have been doing this for about the last twelve years.  My wife is an excellent gospel singer.

When I began to answer the call for the ministry I was not led to pastor a church.  I was led into nursing.  What is so significant about that is that my mother had mentioned that she thought I would make a good nurse.  I was not interested in going to hospitals at all.  I avoided them.  Soon after I was licensed a friend suggested to me that they could use a volunteer pastoral counselor at the hospital in which she worked.  I felt that I could not refuse.

One thing led to another and over time I have become and have been a nurse for over twenty years.  I started out as an aide, then an LPN and then an RN.  For most of my years in nursing I worked in Mental Health and Psychiatry.  I still work part time as a psychiatric screener.

More recently and for the past six years I have worked in critical care and on an open heart unit.  The transition was quite a dramatic one.  The two fields are quite different.  But again, this has not quite been of my own choosing as much as I have felt led by God in this direction.

I offer all of this background because I think the Lord has prepared me with a rather unique set of experiences.  Aside from preaching, I have given a number of presentations on greif and loss.  Beyond that I have given even more presentations on recovery issues for those dealing with addictions and dependency issues.  My hope and desire is to help motivate or remotivate people and to be an encourager.

Many psychiatric patients had to over come issues of poor or low self-esteem even more than having to deal with the illness itself due to the stigma placed on them by the bigger society.  There situation is often similar to the homeless population of NY.  But it is also true of many people who are struggling with recovery issues.  Sometimes dealing with the stigma associated with a particular problem is bigger of worse than the problem itself.

As for being a heart nurse, very often it is just remotivating people to get back up on their feet and moving after having open heart surgery.  Some never survive the surgery.  Often what has led to the surgery is a life threatening event such as an heart attack.  Patients and their families are often profoundly affected by such events.  Our heart unit is sister to the trauma unit and it is not unusual for nurses to float betweeen the two units.  Again trauma patients and their families are profoundly affected by the traumas they face.