caregivers
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Day 267 – What’s in a Rose – for you?s
I have met many roses wearing nurse’s uniforms or doctors coats. Caregivers who Multi_roses_2 carry with them the grace of angels can heal with the beauty of their presence. Continue reading
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Day 266 – Encountering the Divine
Love calls us to search for the divine in the dark places as well as the bright. And Love calls us also to restore her light by reaching out to the saddest and most wounded among us. Continue reading
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Days 259-261 – Art as Loving Care
Imagine the images we could place before patients eyes if we showed our love for them. We don’t need to understand all the reasons. We just need to ask what Love would want us to do. Continue reading
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Day 254 – Clothed for Prayer
Loving attitude, not fine fabric, must be our clothing for holy encounter. Continue reading
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Days 252-253 – Quiet Desperation?
In his extensive ruminations, Thoreau offers his seering insight about our lives of “quiet desperation.” Continue reading
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Day 247 – Loving Friendship
There are those who believe that our role in such situations is to be presence, but to understand that we cannot take the suffering away, we can only make it a bit more tolerable. Continue reading
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Day 246 – The Wisdom of Saint John
Love drives away fear. Without Love, we are continuously vulnerable to fear’s dragon fire. Continue reading
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Day 238 – The Source of Stress
One of the most potentially useful insights shared in these pages in the past is a bit of wisdom that goes like this: Stress arises primarily from our efforts to control the behavior of others. For caregivers and leaders… Continue reading
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Day 233 – Light Inside Pain
The words “gift” does not usually appear as a compliment to darkness. Yet caregivers understand this. Continue reading
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Day 217 – Caregiver Creativity
Exceptional caregivers tune their hearts to the pain of their patients. They follow up by releasing their “contained fire” where it is needed. Continue reading
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