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 91 – Tasting Sacredness

    How do you offer sacredness to others in ways you know are meaningful for them? Or do we even need to know? Some believe the all we need do is engage in continuous acts of kindness. These acts are sufficient by themselves for Love to find its way in this world.

  • Days 88-90 – Open Forum

    The Journal is one way caregivers throughout this country and Canada have of sharing their thoughts on loving care. To offer a story or thought, click on Comments, below.Thank you and have a good weekend.-Erie

  • Day 87 – Mad Love

    On this day, day 87 of the year 2008, how are you experiencing your journey to live Love? Does Love inform the why of your leadership? Do you believe? Do you “madly love” those you serve? I hope so – the world needs your mad love.

  • Day 86 – The Human Heart

    The human heart is both fragile and strong. It is vulnerable to wounds and it is capable of the most important actions any person can take toward another. It requires courage to take these actions, the kind of courage that Love enables.

  • Day 85 – The Power of “Climate”

    We cannot change people. But we can, as Gandhi so often said, be the change we want to see in the world. We can make our own contribution to the culture of our team, our workplace, and those we serve. We can be people of Love.

  • Day 84 – Skin Deep

    Perhaps we may rise above skin deep decision and recognize that, as Maya Angelou says so eloquently, “Love cost all we are/and will ever be/ but it is only love/which will set us free.”

  • Days 80-83 – Open Forum

    Holy Week is a time during which Christians and others may celebrate the entire range of feelings through the experience of the enduring Christian narrative. Our hope is that caregivers will share their thoughts in this space by clicking on Comments (below.) Happy Easter!Erie

  • Day 79 – Reflections

    Reflection can be a powerful opportunity for our hearts to become re-engaged in what we are doing.

  • Day 78 – Glimmers

    Ultimately, visual art, whether as painting, silhouettes, photographs or movies, is about perception. How do we, as caregivers, see each other and our patients? Have we trained our hearts to see the rich layers that exist within each person we encounter? Or do we simply see others as cardboard cutouts?

  • Day 77 – How Art Awakens us to be Human

    This is why all caregivers need to stay in touch with art. And it’s why it’s worth taking a glance at a five minute video of a community of actors who decide to challenge the routine of everyday by creating art in an unexpected place.