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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We owe deep gratitude to those who care for the “crazy.” It is taxing, often confusing & can be as depressing as the disease itself.
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Imagine a friend spending one of her final hours buying you a gift. Opened, it may soon end up in the closet of the forgotten. Wrapped it may become, as here, unique, sacred & a holy expression of one of Love’s sweeter mysteries.
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Do we need a new Messiah, the Daughter of God? That is the question I will pose in a one person art exhibit this September at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Art Gallery. What gender, race & message? What do you think?
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Just as we are all children of God we are letters from God not etched into stone tablets but in the hearts of others. This is the “framing” that matters most. For framed or unframed our lives will leave a legacy whether we wish it or not.
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Although a life’s meaning is not defined by funeral orations it is surely a time when Love calls us to go beyond mere cliches. If you cannot write, paint a picture honoring the deceased, create a dance, assemble a scrapbook, compose some music & follow the annual Jewish tradition of honoring each who has left…
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Every life is fraught with longing.Truth, the home of wrinkled skin & revealed secrets. Compassion, nursing the starving at her breasts. Love, finally freeing the artist’s hand & liberating arias from the poet’s heart. Only these three swim us close enough to brush the ruffled hem of Beauty. And only Death, drawing near, will let…
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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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The right words, music or scenery can bring as much relief physically as can a drug. But, given the choice, most of us pick drugs when seeking relief.
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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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