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

  • Open Forum – The Seed of Passion at Christmastime

      The holidays take on so many different forms for each of us. Passion itself can be a confusing concept. In your moments of reflection, how would you say the seed of passion takes root in your life? How have childhood experiences of Christmas influenced your sense of the role of passion in your life? …

  • The Passion – The Heart of the Third Seed

    As we rise this morning and the next to meet the day, we may consider, perhaps for the first time in a long time, an old and critical question: Are we living our lives with passion? If not, why not? If so, how does this passion renew itself?

  • The Third Seed – Passion, Christmas, & a Special Greeting Card

    Passion calls us to thank God no only for “making each daisy separately” but for enabling us find Love in the daisy crushed by storm or tattered by insects. Passion calls us to gratitude for the life we have and the chance our life gives us to live Love

  • One Sunday Morning

    One Sunday morning Father George began his homily by declaring, “My goal is threefold; 1) have something to say, 2) say it 3) and then shut-up.” This caused me to sit up at attention and listen to his message of Love within the context of two key words persistence and perseverance.

  • Passion – The Third Seed

    Imagine the notion of living in this world like Brother Lawrence as if there were none but you and God in it. Imagine that everything boils down to your relationship with Love. How would this change your world and that of those around you?

  • The Second Seed of Potential – continued

    This is a season in which many envision the picture of the lion and the lamb resting side-by-side. Yet I am mindful that even in this season of peace there is conflict within and among us all.

  • The Second Seed- Awakening Potential in Others

    One of our greatest abilities is to awaken potential in others. The ways we do that inform us about how to awaken potential in ourselves.

  • Potential -The Second Seed- Continued –

    There is no more clear incarnation of potential in this world than a new born baby. All of life opens before my granddaughter just as it did for each of us at our births.

  • The Second Seed of Loving Care – Potential

    Because 19 year-old Robert Hawkins couldn’t find a loving purpose in his life, he ended his life, and the lives of eight other innocent people in a murderous rampage through an Omaha mall. “Just think, I’m gonna be famous,” he said in his suicide note.

  • Open Forum – Purpose

       During the first part of this week, we reflected on the role of purpose in the garden of Love. My own life purpose was enhanced yesterday, Thursday morning, Dec. 6, when I learned that our daughter had given birth to a healthy daughter.    It is no exaggeration to say the my will to…