Meditations
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Days 253-255 – One Good Word
The words we say to others can change the body chemistry of each of us. Continue reading
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Day 252 – Holding on to the Heart
We have become numb, not because we don’t care but because we don’t grieve. Grief is the way the loss heals. Continue reading
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Day 251 – Favorite Daydreams
Daydreams can bring comfort to harried caregivers. Continue reading
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Days 246-249 – Our Choice to Awaken
The world fragments us. Continue reading
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Day 245 – The Remedy of Love
Caregivers all over this country, and the world, reach out every day with tender eyes to offer shelter, physical care, and healing with love. What is it that compels us, in Erie Chapman’s words from yesterday’s journal, to “confront disease,… Continue reading
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Days 243-244 – “Enough of Drowning”
Since "God is Love," it is Love we are called to live both as caregivers and in our everyday life. Sometimes Love brings us deep peace. Sometimes we may feel Love is abandoning us when, in truth, it is our fear that… Continue reading
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Day 242 – Love is God
This is why caregivers are my heroes Continue reading
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Day 239 – Circles of Possibility
Community matters and it is from community that healing happens, albeit in bits and pieces of the dance we spin from the music we cannot hear with our ears. Continue reading
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Day 238 – How Much Longer?
Our energy to endure flows from hope. Continue reading
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Days 233-235 – Open Forum – Mother’s Love
As I have written before in this space, it is likely that we first learn about love from our mothers. Mine (in a recent photo with her great grandson Miles) turned 97 on August 21. For nearly a century, this date has… Continue reading