Journal of Sacred Work

caregivers

  • Days 37-41 Gratitude or Pride?

    Tethered to the earth we struggle to express ourselves with the best words we can find. What happens to your energy when you choose the word “gratitude” instead of “pride?” Continue reading

  • Days 30-34 – Who Should Lead Caregivers?

    “The difference between the right & wrong leader is the difference between sunshine & gloom. Leadership incompetency is a hidden health care tragedy. Nurses & physicians who achieved medical certifications were never tested for their leadership skills. Caregivers & patients… Continue reading

  • Days 23-27 – Changing the Past

    Want to change your history? Our past is a library of books we wrote. Rewrite those books & you change your life. As the cartoon priest said, “Change comes from within.” Continue reading

  • Days 9-13 – The Marriage of Love & Need

    This sacred encounter awakens every experience of our personal participation in the marriage of love & need. And it is the body language of these people that most nurtures our sense of the majesty & grace of caregiving. Continue reading

  • Days 2-6 – What Do You See?

    If I share the circumstances of this photograph you may think, “I see” & move on. The artist’s dismay is that you miss whatever else a picture has to offer. Speed is not a part of meaningful encounters. Continue reading

  • Days 346-350 – Saving A Child

    Yvan was born with a death sentence. His crime? Club feet. American children receive love & treatment. In Yvan’s Ivory Coast village the tradition is to kill “disfigured” children. That was Yvan’s fate until he found a pair of angels. Continue reading

  • Days 339-343 – The House of Surprise

    “The passing world survives only in moments of absolute being…” To find beauty in the image of a woman interrupting the lines of a row of drinking fountains is a gift we can unwrap everyday. Thus, our “ordinary” workplace becomes… Continue reading

  • Days 325-329 Reaching For Help

    The umbilical cord had just been cut. Suddenly separated from his mother my grandson reached for help. Almost every baby does it. Soon enough – usually sooner than we would like, we are taught to quit that. To stand on… Continue reading

  • Days 319-323 Folds of Grace

    Work at any job for ten, twenty or thirty years & it becomes hard to see the elegance around us. When we find it our days breathe meaning. The world harbors dark pain. The world offers startling folds of grace. Continue reading

  • Days 318-323 – “The Divine Blueprint”

    The more variegated & unusual our soul’s blueprint, the more courage it takes to live it. And the more dazzling the result if that courage & that destiny are embraced. Continue reading