Meditations
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Days 314-318 A Healing Moment
Contrary to most, I dread fall & even labeled it The Dying Season. A single healing moment changed that. This week’s Journal explains. Continue reading
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Days 307-311 – The 85/15 Rule
Do you love anyone enough to put up with whatever percent of their behavior you cannot stand? That is relationship’s ultimate question. The answer turns on a strange equation that mixes logic with something that has no logic: Love. Continue reading
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Days 300-304 – Creativity: Where Does It Come From?
I am forever encouraging people to do more than just split-second looking. Watch children create & you will rediscover the source of your own creativity. In these times, imagination can be our salvation. Continue reading
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Days 293-297 – One of Your Angels*
Let David Whyte’s light shine into your life & you will experience the soul-refreshing presence of one of your angels. Continue reading
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Days 286-290 – Mirrors & Windows
Behind every hospital window dwells a patient cut off from health & home. The mirror tells them what we must always remember: they are more than a diagnosis. If we look with love through the windows of our eyes into the… Continue reading
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Days 278-282 – Praying for our enemies?
Radical Loving Care calls us to heal even if our patient is hateful. That can feel harder for some caregivers than practicing curative medicine. And it is the calling of all who claim the title of caregiver. Continue reading
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Days 244-248 – Leaders MUST Have Compassion
We need a President who is a Caregiver-in-Chief as well as a Commander in Chief. Someone who leads with love, not fear. Continue reading
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Days 237-241 – That “Slant of Light” – Hope & Healing
One sentence the depressed never say? “I feel hopeful.” Depression is anger turned inward. Irritability causes the sufferer to drive away exactly those they need. Many avoid the depressed rather than offering the lifeline of their healing presence. Continue reading
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Days 230-234 – The Most Important Uniform in the Hospital
When I had the power to do so, I should have hung a giant picture at each of our hospital’s entrances entitled: “The Most Important Uniform in the Hospital.” Inside the frame, a patient gown. Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 