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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Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which be explored only by those willing to take risks. -Adolph Gotlieb 1903-74 I often reflect on how irrelevant both arts and the notion of risk must seem to the everyday lives of caregivers. Tending to those in need, often both at work and at home,…
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I see Love wherever beauty and truth thrive – whether in a caregiver, a flower, a sparrow, a monkey or a stanza of poetry. Our goal is not to question Love’s existence or to doubt through what form it may appear. Our opportunity is to nurture Love wherever she may appear.
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More than two hundred years ago, the Scottish poet Robert Burns challenged us to see ourselves as others see us.
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Crystal balls seem like fun. Mirrors seem like work.
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Children need models more than they need critics. – Joseph Joubert, Pensées Our instinct to try and correct the behavior of others through criticism begins at an early age. We hear it from our parents, then nursery school teachers, and so on until we become critics ourselves, sometimes seeking to control the behavior of…
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You musn’t mind that a poet is a drunk. – Oscar Wilde More than a century after the great Oscar Wilde wrote the above line have we yet learned that he was wrong? We know, intellectually, that we are all changeable. Now, science offers proof that…
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Whatever the question, Love is the answer. – Written on a blackboard at Alive Hospice in Nashville. When I asked Karen York of Alive Hospice about the above quote, she said, "I thought I got that from you." No matter where it came from, I love this statement. Imagine if we all responded…
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When I see your true essence, I see the face of God, the light of Love, which is, was, and always will be present in you and in me. Love is abundant, and when Love is shared it expands out exponentially simply because it cannot be contained; our Love is eternal.
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