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Day 216 – Those Blasted “Little” Events
When we look around to see our lives, or the lives of others, in shambles, there is only one grace that will save us. It is Love. Continue reading
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Day 215 – What We Can Do
Being an instrument to relieve suffering is about much more than learning skills. Continue reading
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Days 212-214 – Open Forum
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." – Monet How does Love overcome a caregivers need for scientific understanding? Continue reading
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Day 211 – The Inner Journey of Leadership
We need each other to find our way in and through the shadow. The journey is personal but our work asks that it not be necessarily private. Continue reading
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Day 210 – Summers of “Doing Nothing”
I think of summer with its luminous fruit,/ blossoms rounding to berries, leaves,/ handfuls of grain. -Mary Oliver With so many things to do in our hectic lives, we may sometimes wish for nothing to do. What better season than summer… Continue reading
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Day 209 – Spiritual Inquiry
Each day it is good for us to ask ourselves, “How am I living Love today?” Continue reading
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Day 208 – No Holding On
there is “no holding on with love.” And as we let go, perhaps we can replace fear with not only Love, but gratitude. Continue reading
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Days 205-207 – How Caregivers Elevate Their Lives
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of [a person] to elevate his [or her] life by a conscious endeavor." Henry David Thoreau As you perhaps know, Thoreau came up with many of his most… Continue reading
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Day 204 – The Way of Love
In healthcare systems and workplace settings across American there are tyrants as real and as unjust as those who lord over the camps of North Korea or the desert plains of Rwanda. Continue reading
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Day 203 – The Quality of Your Day
Caregiving is such hard work that it is natural to hope that a given hard time will pass. Somehow, every moment has value, even the difficult ones. For these moments are also part of our sacred time here on earth. Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 