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

  • A Dying Professor’s Last Message – Have Fun!

    Not many of us will have the chance to make a final speech in such circumstances. But, of course, we are all dying. So the question becomes, as Pausch tells us, not how we die but how we are living. We all want to say about our lives that we have lived with joy. Perhaps…

  • Comfort Movies

    Lots of people complain that Americans watch too much television. For me, great movies aren’t “television.” They invite us into a magic land where, for a time, we live for a couple of hours with stars who feel like old friends. We know it’s all pretend. And we love it.

  • Open Forum – Group Relationships

    I’ve been surprised, recently, to rediscover the degree to which our lives are defined by our relationships not to people, but to groups. We start life in the context of family. Soon, we determine who we are in the milieu of neighborhoods, schools, teams. Churches, temples or synagogues may further describe for us how (or…

  • On Despair

    In what ways are you able to stand in the gap for those you serve? How does Love find its way through your hands and hearts to make the way safe again for those who need us? Be courageous, fellow caregivers; bang your staffs against the ground and shout like mad-men if need be, “Love…

  • Which Wolf Do We Feed?

    Yet Love asks nothing of me. Love simply waits, with endless patience, for me to enter her presence where I may, if I am wise, enjoy the peace that is free of need.

  • Live Love

    What is meaningful is to turn our everyday attention to the thought and practice of loving behaviors. As we practice Love, we learn that Love is not about congratulating ourselves for being Loving. For Love is its own reward. When we live Love, there is no room for fear.

  • Presence Beyond Our Senses

    Amid all of this, Helen Keller, deprived of sight and hearing, calls out to us to understand that the most important truths of life live beyond our senses. We know what she means. She is talking about Love.

  • Open Forum – Presence

    The practice which most helps me find presence to everyday life is meditation. What helps you?

  • Roadside Flowers

    Former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, like all great poets. helps us appreciate that presence to roadside flowers teaches presence to life and to Love.

  • The Shared Presence of Love

    In an internet missive that has probably circulated the globe several times, the innocence of Love is shared through the eyes and hearts of 4 – 8 year olds who were asked “What does love mean?” A couple of comments really caught my eye