Journal of Sacred Work

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  • Raising the Light

    We listen to the stories of those around us. And we tell them our own. And in the resonance between speaker and listerner, the light of love shines in the eyes of each. Continue reading

  • How Story Circles Change Culture

    These are the kinds of questions that focus attention (and therefore energy) on the nature of loving care. As staff hear each other discussing these things, they discover something remarkable – the organization is focusing on caregiving. Every time a… Continue reading

  • Understanding

    The Four Relationships central to Radical Loving Care: Between caregivers and patients, caregivers and each other, caregivers and leaders, and caregivers with themselves, are all grounded in communication that signals respect between the parties. We all have the ability to… Continue reading

  • One Spirit

    I don’t expect this meditation to change anyone’s thinking because there is nothing new in these thoughts. Yet, perhaps this reflection may re-awaken the part of each of us that senses the oneness of all humanity. And as this recognition… Continue reading

  • Dreaming & Doing

    That year I heard words like significance, passion and persistence. These were among the words that our then new CEO, Erie Chapman, spoke to the leadership team at Baptist Hospital. The vision being offered was of a place where bringing… Continue reading

  • Signs of Radical Change – A List of Some of America’s Healing Hospitals

    Progress in any movement is always uneven. But the evidence is now clear that what patients have always wanted is what America’s Healing Hospitals are finally offering: the best balance of quality and compassion resting on the only foundation that… Continue reading

  • Open Forum

    As an experiment today, I would like to invite readers to offer comments on whatever issue they find of interest in caregiving.  Continue reading

  • Altered States

    Language reflects how we think toward ourselves and others. It can also have an enormous impact on our physical state. This effect is dramatically under-appreciated. Continue reading

  • Gifts

    To revel in God’s Love, we need to recognize and accept our role to manifest that Love through the gifts we have been given. Love comes through us, not from us. As we engage our gifts for the good of… Continue reading

  • Friday’s Guest Reflection

    I say I believe in the possibility and reality of healing and yet am awed and honestly quite often surprised when I see evidence of its occurring. When the patient leaves our care, uncured of the cancer that brought him… Continue reading