Journal of Sacred Work
Caregivers have superpowers! Radical Loving Care illuminates the divine truth that caregiving is not just a job. It is Sacred Work.
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Our “room at the top of the world” is not a thousand miles away but within – or not at all. I have found mine & I ain’t comin’ down.
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"It is easy to turn away from a stranger, the unknown other, from the faceless in a crowded sea of otherness." – Liz Wessel In her weekend essay (& exceptional painting) Liz Wessel answered a question that I also address here: What can we do to transform the "sea of otherness" into a land…
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Many of us squander our time on earth. Life was not wasted on Gretchen. She embraced it, drank its champagne, painted it the color of Argentina, changed a city & impacted hundreds of thousands.
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In this 11-second video, my fifth grandchild experiences his first bite of solid food & turns up his nose. Then his mom makes him laugh. Will his subconscious record that eating the dislikable can be fun? Society strives to crush our individuality. How do we preserve our uniqueness?
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To All Caregivers Far and Wide, May you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament of service, which awakens around you a rhythm where doubt gives way to the grace of wonder, where what is awkward and strained can find elegance and where crippled hope can find wings, and torment enter at last…
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When Einstein was stuck developing his theory of relativity he often picked up his violin “to reconnect with the harmonies of the universe.” Radical Loving Care is a theory of caregiving. Healing is grounded in God’s love. Thus healing flows from joining science & art to connect with “the harmonies of the cosmos.”
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Symbology impacts caregiving. Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking and directing agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing.
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There are hundreds of lessons that can be gleaned from watching geese in flight. Yet, the most important appears in three lines from Mary Oliver, “There are things you can’t reach. But/you can reach out to them, and all day long./ The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God.”
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Sensitivity plants release leaves insulted by human touch. Then they grow new ones. Can we grow new strength by releasing the weight of old insults. Is it worth trying?
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