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 301- 302 Autumn

     Note: Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no." And tonight the heavy earth is falling away from all other stars in the loneliness. We're all falling. This hand here…

  • Days 296-300 – The Impossibility of Love

    Admire the seekers. Admire the caregivers who risk everything for Love in order to “move this little bit of light toward/ us/ impossibly.”

  • Days 294-295 An Essential Truth

    “If your only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure…” St. Francis of Assisi According to the Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, Saint Francis offered an alternative way of life that recognized God’s presence in our midst and the sacredness of everything that is. The lived experience of St. Francis was one…

  • Days 288-293 What Caregivers Want in Leaders

    If you want positive outcomes engage positive energy. Leaders who practice this, like Chris York, George Mikitarian & Laurie Harting, must be affirmed. Those who do not must be retrained or removed.

  • Days 276-277 At the End of the Day: A Mirror of Questions -by John O’Donohue

    At the End of the Day: A Mirror of Questions What dreams did I create last night? Where did my eyes linger today?Where was I blind? Where was I hurt without anyone noticing? What did I learn today? What did I read? What new thoughts visited me? What differences did I notice in those closest…

  • Days 271-275 – Your Book of Now

    Some strive to “kill time.” Even in moments of pain why would we ever want to kill the only thing we have? Speed & boredom trample the richness of our moments. Meditation offers a partial solution. The full answer rests in living love.

  • Days 269-270 Prayers for Healing

    Great God, who has told us "Vengeance is mine," save us from ourselves, save us from the vengeance in our hearts and the acid in our souls. Save us from our desire to hurt as we have been hurt, to punish as we have been punished, to terrorize as we have been terrorized. Give us…

  • DAYS 262-263: The Best Kept Secret

    “Death is not an enemy, death lives in paradise. What makes anything precious but that it ends? ” B. J. Miller MD, Hospice and Palliative Care, extraordinary human being.  I had the good fortune to listen to Dr. Miller share wisdom gleaned through his life experience with encountering death.  He offered many compelling thoughts about…

  • Days 257-261 – Serenity From The Saints

    Poems are prayers, fine photographs are meditations & music is a bed on which to rest the tired heart. I classify great artists as saints.

  • Days 255-256: Early Morning Offerings

    Submitted by Liz Wessel: Since childhood, I’ve loved the tranquility early morning offers, in quiet moments drawn to God’s peace.