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Days 262-265 – On Being Fully Human
Although none of us can achieve perfect wholeness in all ways in this life, Joyce Johnson suggests that the road to wholeness is the place where we can best serve the miracle of healing for our patients and for ourselves.… Continue reading
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Days 259-261 – Art as Loving Care
Imagine the images we could place before patients eyes if we showed our love for them. We don’t need to understand all the reasons. We just need to ask what Love would want us to do. Continue reading
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Days 256-258 – Open Forum
These are open forum days. Please share you thoughts with other caregivers by clicking on Comments, below.Thank you,erie Continue reading
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Day 255 – The Blessing of Hope
Hope does not come from being told to “think positively,” or from being told that all will be well. Rather, hope is the uplifting sense we experience when we are able to see a path to a better future, even… Continue reading
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Day 254 – Clothed for Prayer
Loving attitude, not fine fabric, must be our clothing for holy encounter. Continue reading
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Days 252-253 – Quiet Desperation?
In his extensive ruminations, Thoreau offers his seering insight about our lives of “quiet desperation.” Continue reading
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Day 252 – Quiet Desperation?
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau (1854) I encountered Thoreau, as have many others, through his book, Walden. It came into my hands… Continue reading
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Days 249-251 – Open Forum & Request for Prayers
These are our traditional, end-of-the week, open forum days. In addition, I’d like to ask that you offer prayers for one of our most dedicated contributors, Liz Wessel and her family. Liz advises that she will be away for… Continue reading
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Day 248 – Loving Out of Brokenness
Henri Nouwen has written of the mystery of the human heart in relationship to one another, and suggests our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others. Beyond what others have asserted as a universal need to love and be… Continue reading
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Day 247 – Loving Friendship
There are those who believe that our role in such situations is to be presence, but to understand that we cannot take the suffering away, we can only make it a bit more tolerable. Continue reading
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