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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As we enter into the Sabbath of this summer eve I wish you peace; deep abiding peace… and love. May we know and be peaceful. To make peace with whatever needs expression and to greet whatever feelings arise, no matter how difficult, with a little willingness to see anew. To give is to receive. May…
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Why must love demand so much of us? Why can’t we limit love’s divine magic so that it is all joy and no sorrow?
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I offer the following quotes from David Whyte’s book, “Consolations” as reflection on this Memorial Day weekend. “Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our…
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If it is a gift to experience amnesia around pain is it a curse that ecstasy can also confound our recollection?…Every ecstatic experience shares one thing in common: love. Without it “satisfaction” is cheaply won and ultimately devoid of meaning. With it, ecstasy is truly worth recollecting with gratitude.
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) I am drawn to…
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The only thing that lasts a long time is suffering. All other time – occasions of comfort or joy – moves faster.
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"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit?…
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American healthcare has been out of balance for decades.
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Why is it that dreaded calls come in the middle of the night? Roused from sleep by a thrill ring of the phone, I answered with trepidation. My heart started to pound as my daughter in law said, “Liz, something has happened to Lee. He collapsed at work and had to be resuscitated, they think…
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“But isn’t light as mysterious as darkness;/ isn’t what lifts and reveals/ as profound as that which descends and covers?” -Clare Bateman
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