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 320-321 Love Holds Us Together

    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.   Great God, who has told us"Vengeance is mine,"save us from ourselves,save us from the vengeance in our heartsand the acid in our souls. Save us from our desire to hurt as…

  • Days 319 – 323 – Magnifying Love Through Photographs

    Memories of love need tending lest they be lost. Sometimes only a photograph can retrieve them &, in so doing, make more sacred the fabric from which our lives are woven.

  • Days 317-318 A Necessary Autumn

      A Necessary Autumn Inside Each   You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. There is no getting ready, other than grace. My faults have stayed hidden. One might call that a preparation! I have one small drop of knowing in…

  • Days 312-316 – Courage & The Trump Effect

    Courage is fire, bullying is smoke.  - Benjamin Disraeli      This column is about bullying, not politics. It can affect caregivers in the workplace who face, everyday, a boss who leads with intimidation instead of love.      I saw people like Donald Trump as a child. A bully picked on my sister, who…

  • Days 310-311 Remembrance

    Note: with a heart of remembrance, this loving guest essay is offered by Jolyon Vernon Druce. The second Sunday in November is Remembrance Day (also known as Veterans Day on November 11th). We pay our respects to those that have lived the military life. When I was in Salt Lake City, Utah last month I…

  • Days 305-309 – Is Being Good Enough?

    Many might think that all ordained ministers would argue that religion is required for admission to heaven. Not this one.

  • Days 303-304 Loved into Being

      Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day the blueprint of your life would begin to glow on earth, illuminating all the faces and voices that would arrive to invite your soul to growth. Blessed be those who have loved youinto becoming who you were meant to be, blessed be those who have crossed your…

  • Days 298-302 – Honoring Broken Relationships

    Every time we dishonor a once-meaningful relationship or a lost job we demean ourselves. How can we replace heart-break with heart-joy?

  • Days 296-297 “Scattering Winter Dreams”

    “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”  ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Fall is a favorite time of year for many.   On a breeze they waltzed, they danced, they fluttered before parachuting down to Mother Earth.  Sun creates a momentary luminary that casts shadows beneath her skin. Nature gifts…

  • Days 291-295 Great Expectations?

    “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”