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

  • Days 46-47 – Open Forum

    Today is an opportunity for you to share any thoughts you wish to offer on caregiving. Click on Comments, below.Thank you

  • Day 45 – A Valentine’s Day Prayer

    The gifts of Love are the only ones that matter. These gifts are great, endless & the reason for our lives. Today, like every day, caregivers send loving gifts out not only to their families, but to their patients

  • Day 42 – Why Change is Necessary & Painful

    When we fix our eyes on Love and understand the importance of Love as a purposeful goal, the pain of change becomes no more than a side effect.

  • Days 39-41- Open Forum

    Today is an opportunity for you to post anything you think may be of help to caregivers. Click on Comments, below, to post your thoughts.Thank you

  • Day 38 – Risk Taking

    This holding on, this letting go. These words are the title of a beautiful book of poetry written by Karen Updike. I thought of them as I read the latest journal entries and comments.

  • Day 37 – Love That Frees Us

    Love is the only thing that can free us, but only if we are willing to be free. I used to think that everyone wanted to be free. It turns out this is not true. Freedom may feel like a dangerous place. Love holds uncertainty for those unwilling to surrender completely to her power.

  • Days 32,33, & 34 – Open Forum

    This is an opportunity for you to share your thoughts with other caregivers. Click on Comments (below) to make your entry.Thank you

  • Day 31 – Perpetual Beginnings

    As monotonous as some tasks seem, each time we do one of them we are doing that thing for the first time. The nurse, the surgeon, and the social worker interviewing her fifth client of the day would all do well to remember this wisdom. It may feel like the thousandth time for them, but…

  • Day 30 – Changing Energy & A Gift From Whyte

    In so many ways, we are how we feel at this moment. Our history is stored within us in every cell of our body. Our body may well remember what our mind does not and vice versa. But, our persona is shaped by the mood of the moment.

  • Day 29 – On Being Community

    The Journal entries of late seem to have the thread of community woven throughout – a community against injustice, a community of caring for an individual, a community of faith. In writing about community, Henri Nouwen has suggested community is, first of all, a quality of the heart.