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  • Healing Hospital List 2006

    The staff of the Baptist Healing Trust is pleased to announce the list of hospitals which have qualified as Healing Hospitals for 2006. These organizations have developed cultures of Radical Loving Care characterized by an exceptional focus on caring for… Continue reading

  • Greener Grass?

    When is the last time you looked down at the grass beneath your feet? Is it weedy and yellow from lack of attention? Maybe it’s worn down to the point where only dirt remains. When is the last time you… Continue reading

  • Touching the Earth

    Most human beings still live close to the earth in places we now refer to as “third world countries.” It is from them, and from the original Americans who occupied this country, that we can still learn some of the… Continue reading

  • Mandalas

    For me, the process of creating a mandala is a reflective one, helping me to center, and offering a path to self-discovery. As a spiritual art form, it allows for meaningful expressions of Love that can be shared with fellow… Continue reading

  • Forgiveness & Grace

    But Love gives us all the guidelines we need. Love challenges all of us to celebrate compassion while simultaneously calling us to live responsible lives. If all of us were perfectly good, we would never need the practice of forgiveness.… Continue reading

  • St. Patrick’s Day Mandala

    On Saint Patrick’s Day, reader Liz Wessel has created a mandala to help our celebration. To learn more about mandalas, read her meditation on Monday, March 19.    Continue reading

  • Prayer & Meditation

    The choice to be silent and the discipline of stillness offer the opportunity to change the focus of our attention from the busy and demanding to the inner voice of Love, healing and compassion. Continue reading

  • Things to Think

    New ways of describing things cause us to see in new ways. Old ways of using words trap us on in old ways of thinking. “Awesome” was once a beautiful word. today, it is has been so overused, abused and… Continue reading

  • The Letting Go

    When we do, we will discover that relationships are precious, perhaps the most precious thing there is in life. And that to love another means, when the time comes, a letting go. Continue reading

  • Touch Card Breakthroughs: Parrish Medical Center, Mercy Gilbert Hospital, St. Joe’s Home Health

    Congratulations to Parrish, Mercy Gilbert, and St. Joe’s Home Health Services on being the first three organizations in the United States to implement the Touch Card program. How lucky to be caregiver at such an organization – and even to… Continue reading