Radical Loving Care
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Day 187 – Friday’s Featured Art!
The Journal is offering a new Friday feature – a single poem will appear each week to enrich your day. The first offering is “Turning West” by Dr. Terry Chapman. Continue reading
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Days 169-173 – Meaningful Relationships
The radical thing about Radical Loving Care is that the heart’s sensitivity, newly tuned to Joy, becomes exquisitely vulnerable to suffering. Pain is integral to meaningful relationships. Continue reading
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Days 139-143 – Healing Water
Actual wells run dry. Love’s never does. But, as life’s demands scare us from living love we grow thirstier & forget how to water our souls. Or shun the work it takes. Love’s soft rains bring Spring’s healing touch. Whether the… Continue reading
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Days 125-129 From Whom Did You Learn Love?
My image of mom, “Final Days” ended up hanging in the Vanderbilt Art Gallery this past year. Write down who taught you love & how. Create something to honor that person. Avoid easy answers like, “My mom was great,” or… Continue reading
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Days 111-115 – The New Two Dimensional Relationships
Does the widening phenomenon of two-dimensional encounters threaten our humanity? What happens to compassion when we fall ill & our caregivers know us only as electronic images that can be turned off & on like a television? Continue reading
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Days: 101-102 What Does It Mean To Wash Another’s Feet?
During Holy week, what comes to mind is the powerful, yet humble gesture of Jesus washing the disciple’s feet. In reflecting on the spiritual meaning of this act, what resonates deeply are thoughts based on a homily given by the… Continue reading
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Days 89-93 How to Stir The Sky
Adults have magic powers. Look at the effect you have when you thank a caregiver, smile at a policemen or tell a doctor you are grateful for her work. Consider your impact when you meet a patient’s eyes with love… Continue reading
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Days 82-86 Two Reasons Why Some Crises Unite Us
Radical Loving Care calls us to love even when Fear says it makes no sense. Why? Because love is the heart of our highest humanity. Continue reading
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Days 75-79 Why BSW-Grapevine Medical Center is Golden
As this essay is published (March 16, 2020) COVID-19 crisis is omnipresent. One hospital you can count on to deliver loving care is Baylor Scott & White’s Grapevine Medical Center. And one leader I would hire to run Riverside Methodist… Continue reading
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