Caregivers transform the lives of all they encounter. Love comes to fill the dark hole of another’s need. Without it, our lives are emptied of meaning. With it, our lives – yours and mine – are redeemed.

I have reluctantly concluded that no matter how clever, amusing or seasonally appropriate, ringing cell phones are mostly just annoying.

Hope runs high at Christmas. So does grief. In your private Christmas, I wish you both. Christ was not born to wipe away all our tears but to be present for us when we shed them. What I don’t wish for you is indifference – that gray land that lacks all color. The moments when…

Our very life depends upon our ability to reach beyond the narrow nature of ourselves to touch the hem of God. When we do so (or when we at least strive to do so) we have brushed the edge of our own souls. We have entered the living water of Love’s grace. And we have…

Paul urged gentleness as well as the practice of thanksgiving. He offered these practices as ways for us to open the door to God’s peace. And in this peace we discover the presence, and the strength of Jesus. He waits for us to discover that when we practice kindness and thanksgiving, we learn love.

In a world colored by hate and evil, we can all choose to live with a view through the lens of fear, of competition or of loss. Or, like Stormy and the staff of Park Center, we can choose to see the world differently, thru the lens of love.

What raises most people’s energy is their ability to keep their eyes on a goal loftier than what any boss may or may not say. It is to remember, each day, that every loving effort to meet the need of another is inherently and vitally sacred. Whenever we are acting from our heart to help…

We can best deliver loving care when we see the humanity in the other. Once we have stereotyped someone as an object belonging to a class we think of as distasteful then we have harmed our ability to love.

Every art calls us to slow our pace to hear the voice of beauty. It’s hard to create fine art, or give the best care, at high speed. Velocity is the enemy of art and the opponent of presence. This is not a call to slow down in the middle of emergencies. It is a…

Our humanity is rescued when we continue to love in the presence of hatred. – Erie Chapman. In the face of the world’s grief, we must be lovers. – Erie Chapman