suffering
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Days 60-64 – After Pain
By now, you are a veteran of pain….One thing you know for sure. The worst thing to tell a sufferer is that, “Pain is a great teacher.” What we want is compassion not counsel…There is often no cure for our… Continue reading
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Days 133-137 – Time & Suffering
The only thing that lasts a long time is suffering. All other time – occasions of comfort or joy – moves faster. Continue reading
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Days 335-339 – A Glimpse of Paradise
Thank you for the way your beauty reaches the level of “magnificent” – for the way you brighten a world filled with suffering. For the times when you “lift the ceiling” & offer a glimpse of paradise. -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 190-194 – Honoring Sacrifice
“The Journal of Sacred Work also honors the sacred pain that our veterans endured so that we could live love in a free country.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading
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Days 216-218 “The Promised Land” of Perfect Health?
“The Promised Land is not perfect health. Instead, it is a life wrapped in the arms of a Love – a Love that enriches life and informs its most sacred expressions – our relationships.” -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 45-47 – “Point of View”
Every person in need hopes we see the color of their need. We can only do this by climbing into the cave of their pain so that we may lead them out toward the light. Continue reading
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Days 350-351 – The Infection of Perfection
It is amid the bloody earth of our deepest pain where we discover the stuff of growth and healing. Continue reading
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Days 340-342 – Circling
Perhaps, we are simply God’s Love. We travel the earth for awhile, searching and swirling. Sometimes we sing to the suffering. Sometimes we suffer ourselves – all the while “circling around God, the ancient tower.” Continue reading
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Day 184-185 – Doubt & “The Leap of Faith”
Doubt is the root of fear. Continue reading
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