Journal of Sacred Work

healing

  • Day 245 – The Remedy of Love

    Caregivers all over this country, and the world, reach out every day with tender eyes to offer shelter, physical care, and healing with love. What is it that compels us, in Erie Chapman’s words from yesterday’s journal, to “confront disease,… Continue reading

  • Day 239 – Circles of Possibility

    Community matters and it is from community that healing happens, albeit in bits and pieces of the dance we spin from the music we cannot hear with our ears. Continue reading

  • Day 197 – A Sabbath Mind

    “Often in our striving for a particular result, we are not willing to be surprised by a healing we cannot image. Paradoxically, it is often cowardice that makes us hold on to our own small solutions; it takes infinitely more… Continue reading

  • Day 162 – Care-Actors for the World

    “Competent know-how in the 21st century has been reduced to efficient performance around techonology, to the exclusion of loving performance around patients. It takes effort,” suggests Dr. Parenti, “to distinguish the caring relationship from the uncaring system that surrounds us.” Continue reading

  • Day 141 – The Possibility of Miracles

    One my colleagues has noted we seem to pay attention to what is miraculous only in its absence. Continue reading

  • Day 134 – What Will You Stand For?

    Living authentically and with integrity of all that makes us each a unique gift as members of humanity takes courage and sometimes boldness. Creating community takes compassion and great love. Continue reading

  • Day 363/4 – The Stages of Our Truth

    So long as genuine Love is present, none of the concerns about her appearance are valid. Meanwhile, the forces of power, control, and narrow thinking will continue to block Love’s light from shining into most of Americas hospitals and charities. Continue reading

  • Day 227 – Being With

    Compassionate care, presence, and healing all emerge from our willingness to be with our own heart and mind. We cannot give what we do not have. Being with others in ways that meet need with Love demands we first know… Continue reading

  • Day 198 – How Friendship Heals

    Eliot had a sweet understanding of the power of friendship and, important for us, she had the gift for how to express it! Eliot’s writing must have been very healing for her. Continue reading

  • Day 197 – Accidental Harm

    The hope of Radical Loving Care is support those caregivers who seek to approach healing in a wholistic sense, to bring the presence of all of themselves to help heal another. Continue reading