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

  • Flowers appear as great gifts. Their beauty is freely available to anyone whose heart is open.

  • In the middle of our caregiving work, the wisdom of Ubuntu is a light that shines from a continent that used to be referred to as “darkest Africa.” Love brings light wherever life affirms her.

  • Join in the celebration of National Nurse’s Week by posting a comment that celebrates the committed men and women who spend their working lives caring for the sick and wounded.Click on Comments, below, to add your thoughts.Thank you,erie

  • I cannot do it all, but what I am able to do, as Mother Teresa once said, I can do with great love. My greatest act today may be to listen fully and deeply to the heart and need of another caregiver. In that deep sharing, the weight of love feels light.

  • There are no medications to treat the loneliness and low self-image that led this mother of five to drug abuse. The only hope for the six people in this story lies in finding the healing power that only Love can bring. Sorrow is bearable if we know Love lives nearby. Without Love, sorrow is truly…

  • Love has no interest in or need for human boundaries. She follows her own path. Love will naturally avoid senseless violence and find righteous expression where justice has failed. She may often call caregivers to break a rule here and there. The courageous caregiver will simply accept the consequences.

  • Click on Comments, below, to share your thoughts with other caregivers.

  • Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating way to make our lives available to ourselves and to others. We have to trust…

  • If you are sincerely interested in learning the practices of loving care, start the daily or weekly practice of designing your own way of teaching using the Journal as your guide. This needs to be fun for you so create your teaching in a way that you would enjoy. How would you like to be…

  • The example of the Samaritan calls to all of us.