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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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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About

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.

Category: Meditations

  • Day 150 – Mindful Again

    Mindfulness is love that resists distraction (italics added). It is a staunch refusal to fall into absentmindedness. It is focused, sustained attention toward the beloved.

  • Day 149 – Dream catching and healing

    Dreams may help us recover our souls. And help others recover theirs as well.

  • Days 144-146 – Open Forum

    You are invited to join our Open Forum and contribute whatever thoughts you would like to share with your fellow caregivers.   Click on Comments, below, and type your message to the caregiving community.Thank you,erie

  • Day 143 – The Power of One

    Words carry great power, as we’ve been sharing this week in this pages; perhaps that power is felt most of all when we use simple, one-syllable words. With our words we can create harm and hurt, or help and hope. It appears that many great things are named by very small words – life, death,…

  • Day 142 – Telling the Truth

    Sensitivity to the world means we are continually at risking the bruises that come when our hearts are open. I don’t have an easy answer to this challenge. Perhaps, we are all too interested in having our cake and eating it too. We want to open our hearts but never want to be hurt. But…

  • Day 141 – Compassionate Communication :-)

    Compassionate communication is a core element in the practice of Radical Loving Care. How do we want to be heard? How are we doing hearing others? The answers to these quesitons are part of the practice of Living Love.

  • Day 140 – Presence to Still Life

    Every museum holds paintings that frame the beauty that lives in ordinary homes. We call this paintings still lifes. These images help us pay attention to the everyday scenes that populate our own lives.

  • Days 137-139 – Open Forum

       These are open forum days providing caregivers a chance to share whatever thoughts they believe would be helpful to their fellow caregivers.

  • Day 136 – Love’s Laughter

    Even in seeking to love, I have taken wrong turns, misstepped with my words, worried too much. The weight of worry is heavy.

  • Day 135 – Uncommon Love

    So many of us think that Love is obvious. So many believe that we all agree about the need for Love and no one will get in the way of its expression. Military leaders in the country of Myanmar (aka Burma) demonstrate otherwise.