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 60-62 – Transcendence

    Perhaps today is an opportunity to share more your experiences as a caregiver with the beauty you see each day.

  • Day 59 – The Sacred in the Ordinary

    Sacredness is created by what we bring to the encounter. Invite Love to join you on your next encounter and you will see what beauty Love can bring.

  • Day 58 – Finding Our Way to Faith

    Great caregivers understand that those among us who are healed are not necessarily those who are cured. Instead, they are the ones among us have found a transcendent faith.

  • Day 56 – Firing Fear

    It’s hard to understand why some leaders who claim to be mission-driven seem to have so much difficulty understanding this. Ambush terminations can smack of leaders who are more power-hungry than mission driven. When leaders become truly in touch with Loving leadership, they come to understand that Love calls leaders to act with respect, firmness…

  • Days 53-55 – Open Forum

    Our Open Forum on Fridays and through the weekend is a special opportunity for caregivers to contribute any thoughts they wish. Just click on Comments (below) to post your thoughts.

  • Day 52 – The Value of Insecurity

    Best of all, in my experience, is to find a way to laugh. Humor in the middle of a tense or humiliating moment, whether it comes from a President, a surgeon, or a first line caregiver, is a powerful tonic.

  • Day 51 – The Season of Now

    While we anticipate all the good that is to be in the coming year, let us live in the moment. For love happens in the moment. And in that moment, we are timeless.

  • Day 50 – Love’s Mavericks

    Every loving culture needs to respect the presence of its mavericks. Those that do are nurturing the garden of Loving Care.

  • Day 49 – Love’s Ideal

    Love, remarkably, does not discriminate. She opens her arms to embrace the most unlovable-seeming among us as warmly as she does laughing babies. Her stream of kindness extends even to those of us who idealize her and yearn for her where she cannot be found.

  • Day 48 – A Late Valentine

    The Journal’s valentine message was an a caring tribute to family love, which continues to resonate with me, as I happened to receive a letter from my mom on Valentines Day. Mom is one who keeps the art of letter writing alive and well.