Twelve steps to a compassionate life
In my year of One Word 2014: Compassion, I’m practicing one step per month from Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. Learn about compassion How do you stay…
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How to Prevent Compassion Fade During a Pandemic
—Grace & Truth Linkup
Compassion Fade The number is huge: 1 million. But it’s more than a number. It’s people. 1 million people. That’s how many have died around the world from the coronavirus.…
Read moreHere’s to the Healers
We passed the year anniversary of Stan’s death on March 15, 2020. It was one of the last days we could enter a restaurant to eat together, and the first…
Read moreSometimes You Interfere
“And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.…
Read moreDo You Assume the Best or the Worst? And a Barking Lady
I double-checked my notes. The call number for the library book was correct. But where was the book? I’d check the next row of books in case it had been…
Read moreBe This Nurse to Whom?
Can we be this nurse? I read this story by Thomas Keating in Awakenings a few years ago. It touched me then. It touches me now. (Italics and breaks are mine.) Here…
Read moreUse Your Hands to Touch a Heart
The laundry door cracked open. I could see her inside the room, tenderly folding each piece of clothing more gingerly than I fold my own family’s clothes. When she had…
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