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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Days 350-354 – Soft Moments

    The sun abandons us early in December's days. Amid the longer nights illuminatation rises indoors – the fireplace, the candle flames of Hanukkah, lights resting on the limbs of Christmas trees.

Woman against sun   We live for light. 

   Yes, we know that the illumination that matters comes from within. But, it sure does help the soul to experience light from without.

  Walk into this picture. Join this woman in some soft moments.

   The lighted fronds reach for her hands as her hair catches the sun. Even the camera's eye flares ovals of aqua, orange & green. 

   Soft moments have a lovely innocence. You can become like the rose in these words from sixteenth century poet Angelus Silesius: The Rose is without why/ She blooms because she blooms/ She does not care for herself/ Asks not if she is seen.

  By yourself you can choose to let go . Your soul can find the rest you not only want but must have in order to be a pathway of light for others.

  Give yourself the luxury of more soft moments. Let Love's light bloom within you. 

-Erie Chapman

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11 responses to “Days 350-354 – Soft Moments”

  1. ~liz Wessel Avatar
    ~liz Wessel

    Thank you for bringing us in on this soft moment with you. Your description is as lovely as is the experience. Your expressions are eloquent in tone and exquisite in meaning; Truth & Beauty.

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  2. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Thank you, Liz. Of course, the same is true of you – in your writing, in your art and in your presence to others.

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  3. Olivia McIvor Avatar
    Olivia McIvor

    the “soft moments” those are two words I will carry with me always now that you have implanted them into my consciousness. Thank you Erie for always sharing your authentic self with us to read and reflect upon their messages in our own lives

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  4. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Thank you, Olivia. I searched around for a phrase that might bring comfort and finally hit on that one. So glad it has already brought you and other some moments of peace and that the same will be true when you pass it along. Thank you for your gifts of compassion.

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  5. Cheri Cancelliere Avatar
    Cheri Cancelliere

    This is so beautiful, Erie. You have brought a soft moment to my life by reminding me to “give yourself the luxury of more soft moments. Let Love’s light bloom within you.”
    It’s so easy to become so busy “doing” that we forget that our greatest gift to others is simply “being” a conduit of love’s light.

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  6. Teresa Reynolds Avatar
    Teresa Reynolds

    “Soft moments”. I’m now looking for them and in the doing so, seeing them everywhere. Your posts are a weekly respite from the dive into dark that this time of year can bring. What a beautiful photograph. It’s as if the photographer has developed the soft moment and planted it in our eyes. Thank you.

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  7. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Thank you for YOUR eloquence, Teresa. I’m so glad the Journal posts provide you with respite.

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  8. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Thank you so much, Cheri. Yes, we all need to be reminded. So glad this post brought soft moments to your life.

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    Anonymous

    Thank you Erie for encouraging caregivers to take some time to relax and enjoy some “soft moments” among their busy days of care giving at the same time to illuminate the Life they have within. There is an expression of tenderness in your illustration which you have done so beautifully. sbeng

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  10. Erie Chapman Foundation Avatar
    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Thank you, Suan. Your own tenderness shines forth in your comment – and no doubt in your caregiving as well. What a gift you are.

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  11. MARIA Avatar
    MARIA

    THANK YOU LIZ, IT INSPIRES ME TO CONTINUE MY WORK WITH THE YOUNG AND ELDERS OF THIS EARTH. GOD BLESS US EVERYONE.

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