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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.

Day 187 – Friday’s Featured Art!

As an experiment, we decided to add a new feature to the Journal of Sacred Work. Whether or not you love poetry we are offer, here, short poems for your enjoyment & enrichment. We hope you will support this effort.

Our choice to launch this initiative is a lovely poem by my cousin, Dr. Terry Chapman. Terry has been an enthusiastic & dedicated supporter of poetry most of his life. It turns out he is also good at writing it himself!

Turning West

Turning West and towards the wind,

My ship sails toward the treasure,

Its sails are set by my intent

and not by stormy measure.

Small and green, my little Jade,

A Bonsai by description.

But locked inside is nature’s might

by only God’s encryption.

Climbing, climbing, up the slope,

toward a higher vision;

When seen afar, we all are one,

And not in lost division!

My spirit longs for better times,

When all of us are one;

And none of us is lost at all

And none of us is none.

(c) Terry Chapman, 2017

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2 responses to “Day 187 – Friday’s Featured Art!”

  1. ~liz Wessel Avatar
    ~liz Wessel

    Your poem reflects a beautiful philosophy for living life and how you have lived your life with positive intention for a greater good and purpose, Terry. When seen from higher ground, we are all one. I especially love your closing lines, “And none of us is lost at all/And none of us is none.”
    I do believe that a new consciousness is emerging and we are on the cusp of creating a better world “where none of us in none.”
    Thank you Terry!

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  2. erie chapman Avatar
    erie chapman

    Your poems is such a perfect pick for our inaugural Friday Art Feature – in part because of this perfect conclusion:
    My spirit longs for better times,
    When all of us are one;
    And none of us is lost at all
    And none of us is none.
    So interesting that you wrote this in 2017. Of course, it is has universal appeal. In 2020 we may particularly feel a desire for a reunited United States – where all of us are one. It is not that different points of view are a problem. It is that so much of the current division in our country is informed by bitterness, anger & exceptional difficulty hearing each other’s point of view (unless we agree.)
    That is the salvation in your last two lines (for me). We are not lost. And we are not “none.” This is the essence of meaning. Thank you for saying this so well, dear cousin Terry!

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