We never speak our deepest gratitude.

Faith-based hospitals and charities must be led with love.

Loving apologies empathize with the person wronged. They don’t offer legal defenses to patients who aren’t even threatening lawsuits.

Human emotions are not so readily guided by our cognitive thinking as we might like. We need to endure our loneliness and learn from it.

We can access incredible energy, as occurs with the Flow phenomenon, if we work hard, stay focused, stay committed, and have the wisdom to know when to let go and let Love takeover.

To be present to life is to be present to death as well – and to notice its stages.

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. – Psalm 127

The pathway to becoming a pathway of love seems to require first a pattern of hard and sustained effort followed by a letting go. The letting go is what Rilke is talking about in the stanza from his poem, “The Visionary.” We need to fight, he suggests, and then “let ourselves be conquered.” The remaining…

Organizational change and personal change require the recogntion that we are all sewn together as if we were quilts.

Wnen staff feels called to meet the unusual needs of paitients they are living out radical loving care. -Erie Chapman