Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
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Days 63-67 – What is Radical Loving Care?
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult task of all.” Rilke Continue reading
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Days 61-62 A Childs Hope for Healing & (A Knot Hole in A Tree)
Note: Guest essay by Xavier Espinosa Off my mother’s kitchen is a sun room that is washed in sunlight thanks to two skylights. In this room sits a rocker, which I remember from my childhood, three bird cages housing parrots and… Continue reading
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Days 59-60 – Creating Your New Life Story
“Change your stories and you change your life.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 56-58 – Healthy Teams
“…I learned at last what it means to love people and why love is worn down by loneliness, pity, and anger.” – Czeslaw Milosz Continue reading
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Days 54-55 Part I:The Pearl of Great Price
“To honor and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.” -Robert A. Johnson Rather serendipitously, there are circumstances when something may come our way… Continue reading
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Days 52-53 – A Loving Leader
“How does a leader integrate a compassionate soul with the rigorous demands of leadership in a hospital setting?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 49-51 – Finding The Hard Balance – The Actress-Doctor
Artists look to create or capture particular kinds of balance in the world – in pictures, paintings, sculptures and poems. Caregivers do the same. Lunchtime is a great… Continue reading
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Days 47-48 Twilight
Note: This reflection is dedicated to my mom, Elizabeth Dorothea Sorensen, in this, her 97th year of life. Twilight fills the sky in delicate etchings of trees reaching towards her opalescent hues. This in between space lends itself in little… Continue reading
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Days 45-46 – Why Storytelling is Important
“The stories we tell signal what we value. If we want to change our world view, we need to look at the stories we are telling ourselves and others.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 42-44 – Principles of Radical Loving Care
“We are all children of Love, not victims of fear.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 