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.

Recent Posts

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

  • Quotes – Erie Chapman

    On Love: Live love, not fear. This is the center of all I believe in. If I fill my cup with Love, there is no room for anything else.

  • Which Headlines Matter?

    Each of us has a much greater capacity for compassion than we realize. Compassion is not a finite liquid measured out in cubic centimeters. It is an endless expression of humanity fueled by Love. Our humanity is enhanced by how we care for those remote from us as well as those in front of us.

  • A Safe Bed

    Bed companies love to advertise the comfort of their mattresses. But true comfort arrives only in a bed that is safe, warm, surrounded with Love.

  • Anniversaries

    Loving caregivers never underestimate the power of the will in healing.

  • Friday Open Forum – Rituals of Love

    Part of the reason religious rituals were established was to help engage believers in the practice of love in the context of community. Some practices are approached resentfully as chores. Others may approach rituals with joy. The daily ritual that helps me the most is thirty minutes of running followed by twenty minutes of meditation.…

  • Sustaining the Sacred

    Rituals are useful if they help us to align our energy with Love. The divine is always present. It is for us to engage a life of mindfulness that allows us to draw near to the divine.

  • The Soul’s Colors

    The life of the healthy soul recognizes the full spectrum of emotion that is life and embraces all of it with courage. The darkest colors of our life have their own poetry and their own unique ability to help us appreciate that mysterious universe we call our souls.

  • What I Hear

    What I want to hear is the sound of my own voice telling the truth to you & my soul.

  • Beauty, Truth & Caregiving

    This week, look for the beauty that lives deeper than pretty smiles and smooth skin. For it is there that Love thrives, waiting for us to notice her

  • Love’s Comfort

    As much as I love a rainy day, there is something magical about the environment when the sun emerges after rain – the air still heavy with moisture…droplets of water glistening on tree leaves and covering my old, weathered deck chair…the smell of the damp earth… the sweetest of a gift in the faint whisper…