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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  • Days 326-327 If Only…

    If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and will also probably commit great faults and do wrong things. But it certainly is true that it is better to be high-spirited – even though one makes more mistakes…

  • Days 320-321 Little Glimmers

      A woman with a scarf over her head hoists her six year old up onto the first step of the school bus. “Good-bye,” she says. A father on the phone with his freshman son has just finished bawling him out for this poor grades. There is mostly silence at the other end of the…

  • Days 313-314 The Wonder in Everyday

    Note: Guest Reflection by Terry Chapman PhD I’m sure you’ve seen the video of a jet plane in trouble as the oxygen masks drop to the terrified passengers below? Giving yourself oxygen first before giving it to kids or other needy folks is plain common sense:  you will not be able to help others if…

  • Days 308-312 – How Strong, How Fragile

  • Days 306-307 Reflections on Being An Artist

    "A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.This may sound easy. It isn’t." "A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking." "Almost anybody can learn to…

  • Days 301-305 – Autumn Sun?

    Anais Nin wrote, “We do not see things as they are./We see them as we are.” Why do you & I see the identical picture in different ways & thus experience different feelings?

  • Days 299-300 Hope In The Midst of Struggle

    “Everywhere I looked, hope existed – but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It was at best a gift of life.”                                …

  • Days 294-298 – Different Kinds of Theft

    A 1974 bank robbery serves triggers discussion crimes that are worse than breaking written laws.

  • Days 292-293 “The Whole of Who We Are”

    “The only way to become whole is to put our arms lovingly around everything we’ve shown ourselves to be: self-serving and generous, spiteful and compassionate, cowardly and courageous, treacherous and trustworthy. We must be able to say to ourselves and to the world at large, ‘I am all of the above.’ If we can’t embrace…

  • Days 287-291 – Angels or Ghosts?

    By reimagining our life stories we can disarm Fear. Bullies that terrorized & betrayers who disappointed can become the scared beings who found no other way to act. New stories can light our way across Fear’s bridge to Love’s lake, home to the only water that can heal.