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Days 186-188 – Independence and Open Forum
What myriad gifts bless all of us that live in a country where freedom reigns. In so many parts of the world, even blogs like this about Love would be subject to review and censorship. Instead, you may feel… Continue reading
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Day 185 – Story of a Lifetime
Some of us are blessed to live near places where storytelling is still revered through festivals and fairs. Great storytellers sometimes speak from imagination, while others tell stories from history, and many talk of myths and legends and fables. The… Continue reading
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Day 184 – The Hidden Bible
Celebrate the Love that lives in you and flows through you. Celebrate your gifts of healing as you reach to release the pain of another with your loving touch. Behold the God that lives within you. Know yourself and you… Continue reading
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Day 183 – Beholding
Things and people are sacred and meaningful because of the way we encounter them. Since we are the ones who bring the meaning, then anything can be meaningful. Any anything may be a vehicle for transcendence Continue reading
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Day 183 – Beholding
I encountered them in the store. Three ordinary vegetables who looked anything but ordinary to my beholding eyes and close touch. Beholding. It’s an elegant and noble sounding word. Beholding the rapture brings the weight of the religious since… Continue reading
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Day 182 – The Comfort of Fantasy
Caregivers must know that so many of their patients, especially the older ones, live in other worlds. The current world, with its illnesses and disabilities, is so difficult Continue reading
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Days 179-181 – Open Forum
Welcome to these Open Forum days. Please share any thoughts you have for other caregivers by clicking on Comments, below.Thank you!Erie Continue reading
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Day 178 – Peace and all good
Today’s meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice-President for the Baptist Healing Trust. The words of St. Francis of Assisi hang as a touchpad at my door’s entrance: pax et buonum – peace and all good. These… Continue reading
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Days 176-177 – What is Real?
One of the fascinations for caregivers who are present to the dying is the notion of what happens in that split-second when life leaves a human being. It can be a sacred moment for anyone near. Or it can be… Continue reading
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Day 175 – Summer Solstice
The real question, of course, is not the length of our days, but how we live them. If we never find our sacred eyes, it doesn’t matter how long the day is because our heart will never notice. Continue reading
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