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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Is any art or any poetry powerful enough to change how you view the world? We often do not know these important things unless we seek to answer such questions.
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Note: special thanks to Terry Chapman for this insightful Father's Day Reflection. If I close my eyes and envision my father from childhood, we are climbing up a steep hill carrying two pairs of black wooden skis; his are normal length and mine much shorter. It is a cold and sunny winter day in suburban…
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She awakes in a forest that she knows & encounters one she knows not. From my altered states I am sure everyday reality is shallow as a birdbath. “Recent studies of superstring theory relating to the smallest subatomic particles suggest the possibility of as many as 26 dimensions,” according to physician Peter Walling, M.D. Can…
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches…
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We are what we worship. Worship a flower & experience its energy. Appreciate a sacred shine & feel peace. Seek to heal the wounded & you will feel healing. Worship cruelty & your spirit will suffer.
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"There lives the dearest freshness deep down things…" G.M. Hopkins This one line from Hopkin's poem holds the the beauty of the universe. Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel May Flowers by ~liz
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One window, two chairs. No pictures or music to distract. The only sound is the voice of your heart. You would know that I am not your hired lawyer listening to news of crimes nor the half-interested priest to whom you list your sins. Nor would I be your paid psychologist or the…
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"To listen to another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another." -Douglous Steere Nature reflects the wisdom of a listening heart. As a child I loved to wake up early and sit on the front stoop of our house and…
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Note: This insightful reflection is offered by Terry Chapman PhD Why, oh why, is it so hard to let things go? And to let people go? We will always have them with us in spirit, but as humans, we try very hard to hold fast to everything, fearing perhaps, that when other people and our…
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The crying infant in is my younger sister, Martha. Our 35-year old mom could not imagine how that girl would become her primary caregiver across the last two decades of her life & a model for Radical Loving Care. A caregiver assessing my 105-year-old mom could not have pictured all the people living within –…
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