It is the best gift you can receive & the hardest to accept. It is the gift of gratitude – from you to yourself.

   You will never be paid enough for the sacrifices you make. Yet you are rich. Every professional caregiver is. Your personal bank account is flooded with the gold of meaning.

   That's an easy thing to forget after a day of helping patients while struggling under a supervisor who forgot that the leader's job is to support you. You are there to serve patients, not the boss. 

   You have helped so many. Thank yourself.

   On the day of Jesus' birth & ever after, celebrate that you are living the message Jesus taught. Every time you serve the suffering you are serving God.

   Breathe in the light that flows from every kind thing you have done. As you celebrate Jesus' birth bathe in the joy of your own.

-Reverend Erie Chapman

Photoart: "Hidden Church" – by Erie