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Days 32,33, & 34 – Open Forum
This is an opportunity for you to share your thoughts with other caregivers. Click on Comments (below) to make your entry.Thank you Continue reading
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Day 31 – Perpetual Beginnings
As monotonous as some tasks seem, each time we do one of them we are doing that thing for the first time. The nurse, the surgeon, and the social worker interviewing her fifth client of the day would all do… Continue reading
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Day 30 – Changing Energy & A Gift From Whyte
In so many ways, we are how we feel at this moment. Our history is stored within us in every cell of our body. Our body may well remember what our mind does not and vice versa. But, our persona… Continue reading
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Day 29 – On Being Community
The Journal entries of late seem to have the thread of community woven throughout – a community against injustice, a community of caring for an individual, a community of faith. In writing about community, Henri Nouwen has suggested community is,… Continue reading
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Day 28 – Self Compassion vs. Self Pity
The greater truth is that all of us are both suffering and filled with the potential for joy. When we feel kicked around by the world, it’s natural to retreat to the closest thing we can find to our mother’s… Continue reading
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Day 25, 26, 27 – Open Forum
How is your journey across 2008 proceeding? How are you doing with your New Year’s resolution to Live Love, not fear? To share your thoughts on caregiving, click on "Comments" (below) Continue reading
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Day 24 – Hinduism & Love
Although the practices of Hinduism may look very different from Christian, Islam, or Judaism, what matters is that this ancient faith is grounded in living Love. This sounds like a faith worth admiring rather than condemning. Isn’t this part of… Continue reading
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Day 23 – Loving Purpose – A Must-See Movie for Caregivers!
When is the last time a movie changed the way you look at life? That’s what the promotional language for the best film of the year says. They’re right. If The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is showing at any… Continue reading
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Day 22 – Our Legacies
Recognizing that legacies are sometimes about our egos, how would you like to be remembered? There’s an old saying that we are not recalled for what we did but for how we made people feel? If this is true, how… Continue reading
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Day 21 – King at Rest – Passion’s Price
Martin Luther King, Jr. must have experienced many days when he resented his calling. He was living in this world, as Nouwen says, but, like all saintly people, he periodically transcended it. Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 