Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality
Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories
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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
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Days 40-41 Sacred Circle
Mandala is the Sanskrit word for sacred circle, there is no beginning and no end, a universal symbol for God as an all-inclusive Love without distinction. Representative of life, mandala symbolism has polarities or opposites. For example, night and day,… Continue reading
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Days 35-39 – The Path to “The Light” – Our Most Sacred Journey
“There is no more important journey than our one towards The Light. If we give up, we fall into the half-light of a world devoid of real meaning. The single most important thing to know is that the light is… Continue reading
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Days 33-34 Our Hidden Gift
The hidden gift in caregiving Continue reading
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Days 31 & 32 – Becoming a Carelover
“How do we become care lovers rather than job haters? How do we move from gray world to bright hope?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 26-27 If Only for an Instant
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi We have a responsibility to ourselves and others to attend to the barriers… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 