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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We need to change our thinking patterns to live Love, not fear.
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We are vessels of Love. But, Love is perfect. We are not…Public examples can lead to our private, and more personal, understanding of Love.
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This may be why Love comes via an open and humble heart and cannot be grabbed with the use of a closed fist.
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“Too late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient and new, too late have I loved you! Behold, you were within me while I was outside; it was there that I sought you, and rushed headlong upon these things of beauty, which you have made. You have blazed forth with light …and have…
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If someone can tell me a good reason for anger, I’d love to hear it.
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"Compassion is a verb." – Thich Nhat Hanh (left) Many well-meaning people enjoy telling nurses and other caregivers, "Oh, I could never do what you do. I am too sensitive." The surprise in a statement like this is that loving caregivers do their good because they are sensitive. It takes courage to make…
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Sunday night, we took turns sharing memories of my father, handing our stories to each other around a circular dinner table. "I remember riding on his shoulders when I was three," my younger sister said about our late father. "He was always so kind, building and repairing things around our house," my wife recalled.…
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"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one’s "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life." ~C.S. Lewis “When that small inner voice calls to us, it is never convenient, is it?” asked Father…
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"For what is beauty, if it does not fire the loving answer of an eager soul?" – Robert Bridges An experienced nurse leader I know (a veteran of countless emergencies) suddenly found herself in the middle of one as a patient. One cold night, Debbie's body was suddenly attacked by a vicious illness she did not…
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Sometimes, it is pain that drives us into the arms of God.
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