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Days 233-235 – How the Soul Learns to See
“Joy sets the day on fire. So does agony.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 226-230 Love, Dreams & Wounds
“Perhaps, wounds are the mothers of our dreams. Maybe we can’t love without facing into our scars, including the ones never healed – the ones that yet bleed through the seams in our souls.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 211-215 – Motionless
“When I’m seeking, I never seem to find what matters. Motionless, I fall, if briefly, into the quiet lap that rests behind the heart. It is in these moments when the truth of the world arrives.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 207-208 – Celebrating the “Ordinary”
“Even if we occasionally do extraordinary things, perhaps, we are all ordinary.Is that such a terrible thing? Or is it something to celebrate as one more way in which we are all joined in our brief journey through this world.”… Continue reading
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Days 204-206 The Turn to Beauty
“When an ugly tragedy strikes in a way that the whole nation feels, it may look like Beauty has gone into hiding. But, it is we who have turned toward our shadow side and away from her light.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 197-201 – “Life Piled on Life” – Living What We Believe
“If we find Love in every moment, the courage to live with passion will follow. Fear can only birth despair. Love’s four children are courage, wisdom, passion and compassion.” Continue reading
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Days 190-194 – Do You Call Yourself Beloved?
“Do you call your self beloved in this world? Love breeds Love. It’s absence nurtures hate and anger and gives birth to fear.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 183-187 The Self We Don’t Know
“Suffering is our hardest teacher. The lessons are expensive. Why cast aside what our pain has taught us?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 179-180 – Sacred Story
“Can we face into our stories courageously and artfully enough to grow all the way into Radical Loving Care?” Continue reading
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Days 169-171 – Intimacy: The Sacred Encounter Between Caregiver & Patient
“When work is a calling, loving care occurs naturally. “We are divine beings” and our divinity shines forth when we reach out to love another beyond our own needs and beyond the expectation of others.” -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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