“The single most important thing a leader does is to take care of the people who take care of people-to serve those who serve.”  
-Erie Chapman

One way to support caregivers is to build connection through relationships. Erie modeled this understanding through by working alongside caregivers. Practice-like anything worthwhile requires intention and effort. Just as a musician needs to practice their instrument you need to practice and model love in action.

Our Works

Everyone who seeks meaning in their life,
seeks meaning in their work.
And, yet, how far we are driven away
from that meaning at times
by what we feel are the pressures of the moment-
And the sense that we are not in control.

We diminish ourselves in that we abandon
the spiritual reality of who we are
and make deals with life
that get us through, moment to moment.

Even so, we are meant I know, for more-
meant to give more to others and to ourselves.
In our business dealings,  just Work does not work.

The fun, the pleasure, the sense of creation,
and camaraderie of work are at best
a recreation of ourselves on a daily basis.

We cannot sustain ourselves
and others around us with less.
It is what we must cultivate to become or to stay
an organization able to exist in and deal with the future.

We can look back at where we have been for knowledge,
but the only ultimately viable perspective on our work
must be what we will become – what we can create together
standing on common ground, on higher ground –
“At play in the fields of the Lord.” 
                                                              ~By G. Mahan

From time to time I recall this poem and I searched my archives to re-read it. This week, my thoughts kept bringing this poem to mind, so I thought I would share it with you as it holds great meaning for me. The poem was written years ago by one of our former employees.

Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel

Mandala Art by Liz