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.

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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.

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  • The Heart of Creation Days 28-29

      Leading with Love A pure gift is not given according to the logic of the Roman motto do ut des – “I give that you might give to me” – but rather in another sense: “I give because I have received.”  Exact repayment is transformed into an attitude of free and unselfish giving-on to…

  • Love is the Bridge Days 21-24

    This week I connected with a friend who is going through a difficult time. She acknowledged the sadness that she is feeling and the myriad of emotions that arise when one experiences loss and the uncertainty that accompanies an ending. Yet, she is choosing optimism over despair as she begins to envision opportunities that may…

  • Days 16-20 Recognition or Relevance?

    Relevance is meaning. Recognition is fame. Dr. King won both. But, caregivers win the only trophy that matters whenever they serve others. 

  • Unfinished or Endless? Days 14-15

    The Unfinished By Viktor E. Frankl We cannot judge a biography by its length,Nor by the number of pages in it.We must judge it by the richness of its contentsSometimes those unfinished are among the most poignant.We cannot judge a song by its durationNor by the number of its notesWe must judge it by the…

  • To Welcome the Stranger Home Days 6-7

    The Year as a House: A Blessing Think of the year as a house: door flung wide in welcome,threshold swept and waiting, a graced spaciousnessopening and offering itself to you. Let it be blessed in every room.Let it be hallowed in every corner.Let every nook be a refugeand every object set to holy use. Let…

  • Just Keep Listening: Days 364-365

                                                                                  I am thinking of you all and wishing you a glorious new year!  Thank you for…

  • The Blessing of Light: Days 351-352

    May the blessing of light be on you – light without and light within.May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.a And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,like a candle set in the window of a…

  • Star of Bethlehem: Days 344-345

    PLEASE NOTE THIS RECORDING I MADE AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO YOU – CLICK ON THIS LINK: Download LIZ AUDIO FOR JSW Spiritual traditions understand December as the season when the sun arrives late and leaves early and with this greater darkness brings with it a sense of our own vulnerability. December 21st is the longest…

  • Days 310-311 Every Loving Thought Is True

    “If every single person who has loved you in your lifetime were to light up on a map, it would create the most glittering beautiful network you could imagine. Throw in strangers you’ve been kind to, the people you’ve made laugh, or inspired along the way and that star-bright network of you would be an…

  • Thanks Giving: Days 303-304

    As we witness the changing of the season,The leaves turning from green to gold,The crisp air and beauty surroundingWe pause in recognition of Indigenous People, The original caretakers of this land We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we live, and work is the unceded territory of many indigenous tribes who made their…