As much as I think I am grateful for my health, I seem to forget about it until I’m not feeling well. Recently I was under the weather for a few days. It wasn’t anything serious, but enough to keep me confined to my house, shuffling around in robe and slippers, tissue boxes at every…

Perhaps the experience is not something to be cultivated, but simply to be admired and respected. Our role is not to transform ourselves, since that is something only God can do, but to be open to the truth, the light, and the love that is always there and may, or may not, come to us.…

We need not look far to find those who need our passion. It is, of course, our patients. We must flame into being the light of our passion because our patients and our peers need us to be more than ordinary. They need us to live from and for a high purpose.

As we revel in the sophistication of our training as caregivers and the advances of science, it may be worthwhile to step back in wonder at the mysterious power of our ability to love. As science continues to shrink the island of the known, we may imagine that the most astonishing facts of all may…

And it you, one of America’s caregivers to whom we send our Valentine today. All of the shoe boxes in the world, filled with heart-shaped cards and candies, will never be enough to thank you for the gifts you give each day.

Orbs “yellow with miracles” grew outside the bedroom window of my childhood. It’s been sixty years since I feel off that sill. Back then, for all I knew, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lived in my lemon tree, spreading their magic dust about my little sister and me while we slept. It’s a long bridge that…

So what are your top life priorities? How much of your attention is focused on the material world and how much on the life of the spirit? Each of us must answer this question for ourselves. And one of the best ways to discover the answer is to consciously and mindfully reflect on our life’s…

Each day, caregivers have the opportunity to live as expressions of light or of darkness. Today is another opportunity for us to meditate on our ability to become better examples of God’s healing grace. Some may think that everybody needs a God who looks like them. Instead, God appears in anyone and in any place…

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares” – Henri Nouwen

Is pain as grim as all this? Yes, sometimes it is. And is “the letting go” a true answer? Ultimately, the answer is probably yes. This is why faith, hope and love are virtues for each of us cultivate. And why the greatest of these is love.