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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The hidden gift in caregiving
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“How do we become care lovers rather than job haters? How do we move from gray world to bright hope?” – Erie Chapman
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi We have a responsibility to ourselves and others to attend to the barriers that prevent us from being a loving, positive force in our little pocket of the…
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“God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle – and my heart and thoughts.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everythingto reach the end without delay.We should like…
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Bennacht — A Blessing — by John O’Donohue On the day whenThe weight deadensOn your shouldersAnd you stumble,May the clay danceTo balance you. And when your eyesFreeze behindThe gray windowAnd the ghost of lossGets in to you,May a flock of colors,Indigo, red, greenAnd azure blueCome to awaken in youA meadow of delight. When the canvas…
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High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've…
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“The cause of death is life. How else can we make any sense of it except through story?” – Erie Chapman
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And I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year; “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than…
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"Nature was a mirror of the soul for St. Francis of Assisi—a mirror for himself and a mirror for God. All this mirroring effected a complete change of consciousness, a shift in how he saw reality.The outer world began to name the inner experience and the nature of God for Francis. It all became…
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