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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Caregivers need to be able to live some “California days” in order to sustain us through winter nights. The way for us to do this is to cultivate Love. Love rejoices in the kind of weather that shinned across Tennessee this weekend. And she is also grateful for cold, rain, and snow. We don’t want…
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My younger sister, Martha, is a caregiver in many ways. First, she works at a large hospital and cares for hundreds of people each day who come to her desk seeking information, help, and support. Second, she looks after our 95-year old mother. Third, she cares for her friends, one of whom is ill.…
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For caregivers, there will never be enough help or enough Love to dissolve this suffering. And we must never give up trying to be agents of loving care, even though we will, as I did with the old man in the car, sometimes fail.
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The caregivers who seem most joyful to me are those who respond to mystery not with hyper-analysis, but with gratitude. They admire the Glasswing, they celebrate great art, and they deepen their appreciation of the world by cultivating radical presence. There is no more important force in the world than the energy of Love. How…
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Journals and meditations are often designed either to illuminate positive change or to bring it about. We read and meditate to find the kind of peace and wisdom that will help us travel the best pathway in life. What are the patterns of thought or behavior you have been able to change and how…
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Two weeks ago I posted thoughts shared from a young mother’s heart whose child had just been born and was not expected to live. Copeland’s birth was a miracle, that she lived for eight days is beyond our grasp, that she had to die is beyond our understanding. The words written today by this young…
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Does knowledge of our spirituality really protect us from evil? Perhaps, a knowledge of our spirituality disarms one of evil’s greatest weapons – its ability to enchant us and to frighten us.
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But what are we to do if we live in a culture that prefers the average. I can only answer in the words of the employee who wrote me: “I’m still going to keep doing a great job no matter what my boss says – because that’s what people who come to the hospital deserve.”
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We can be companions to those in pain. Our presence alone brings relief. For loving presence signals to the other that they do not suffer alone.
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This autumn will be the last season for many with terminal illness. It will be the last fall for Dr. Pausch, who’s last lecture will live awhile longer on the internet. And it will be the first season for many more – too tiny to know, yet, what season they are living. We live somewhere…
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