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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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 102-104 – Open Forum

    On Friday and the weekend, it has become the Journal’s tradition to establish this open forum so that caregivers may share with each other whatever is on their hearts. Click on Comments, below, to do this.

  • Day 101 – The Beauty of Imperfection

    In times of what can feel like a crushing weight of need in this world, caregivers are asked to bring their best. Through these pages we encourage radical love, consistent compassion, continuous chains of caring.

  • Day 100 – Laguna Laughter

    If you drive down to Laguna Beach, California, on a Sunday morning, you may be surprised at how busting life is at daybreak, at least I am.

  • Day 99 – What Do Our Lives Reveal?

    the question of what we want our lives to say can be incredibly helpful in focusing our gifts. This is not a question of legacy. We have no control of what others will say about us. Instead, it’s about what WE want to say with how we live

  • Day 98 – Hero Worship

    We need to find, again, the voice we knew as children and pass it through our adult experience so that it may become real in the world today. Why wait for retirement to start living? Other people need our energy right now. And we serve others best when we are most true to ourselves.

  • Days 96-97 – Weekend Open Forum

    Please feel free to share your thoughts by clicking on Comments, below.thank youErie

  • Day 95 – Long Live the King

    Race relations in America are not as good as they need to be, but they are better. Meanwhile, today is a day we can honor a life given for Love by living Love with all those around us. And we may pause to remember a man who lived his short life of thirty-nine years on…

  • Day 94 – Appreciating the Garden

    The choice to Live Love brings with it times of sweat and tears, of laughter and peace, of the sweet fragrance and the sharp thorn. In the end, these will show sweet fruit and an endless bounty of color and beauty. What are the fruits and flowers of your journey to Live Love?

  • Day 93 – The Male Shadow

    When it comes to real life, I’d rather see male and female leaders who understand that charities need to be grounded in Love, not fear

  • Day 92 – Projecting Light or Shadow

    I agree with Parker Palmer when he says that “the great insight of our spiritual traditions is that we co-create the world.” And we do this, in part, he says, “by projecting our spirit on it – for better or worse.”