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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Category: Meditations
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We each have the ability to respond to the world from our baser instincts or from the higher reaches of our souls.
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Most of the time, for most people, the first caregivers are parents. Grandparents teach caregiving as well.
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Many of you may be in places where touch decisions are being made. Each of us, whether as leaders or teammates stand able to reach out and respond with great care and compassion. These times of change for our organizations, our communities, and our country will not be without hard decisions and hard work, uncertainty…
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Mr. Obama has the chance to live the highest calling of a caregiver by how he responds to the challenge spoken by inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander: “What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance?”
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Happiness, therefore, must be some form of contemplation.
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Cathy Self, Sr. V.P. at the Baptist Healing Trust, provided this piece from Henri Nouwen's book, Bread for the Journey. Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, "Prove that you are a good person." Another voice says, "You'd better be ashamed of yourself." There also is a voice that says,…
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The choice for America’s charities is be places staffed by people who understand how to evaluate and treat, but do not judge and discriminate. The challenge for caregivers is to learn the difference between diagnosis and judgmental thinking.
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The great work of the solitary life is gratitude. – Thomas Merton [image: Nightmare, by Henry Fuselli, 1781) A few hours ago, I awoke from the worst nightmare of my life. In it, both my children were young again and in need of my protection. Both were killed. In the nightmare, my grief was…
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Paul uses strong words, however, to communicate that the most highly prized activities and results are nothing, meaningless, if not done from and with Love.
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Solitude need not be frightening. Indeed, according to Merton, it is our chance to join with Love. After such solitude, perhaps we can return to the world as better prisms of Love’s light.
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