“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”
- Adele Brookman
A blog for posting Light Moment daily emails from Chaplain Lavender Kelley at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.”
- Adele Brookman
Bitter is made sweet through love;
copper becomes gold through love.
Through love dregs become clear;
love heals all pain.
- Rumi
“There is a magnificent life that is waiting for you to wake up and remember who you are and why you are here.”
- Rev. Cynthia James
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
Today concludes Pastoral Care Week. We hope you will call on us anytime you need us or know of a need. Remember, we are in the hospital 24/7 to be a healing presence for you.
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”
- Buddha
Pastoral Care Week is nearing its conclusion. Remember, we are in the hospital 24/7 to be a healing presence for you. Please call on us anytime.
“Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.”
- Thomas Kempis
Pastoral Care Week is continuing with an education event in the Physicians Dining Room from 9am-11am & 11pm-5am. Check out the global messages for more information.
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even a fiercer life, life because of our quiet.”
- William Butler Yeats
Pastoral Care Week is continuing with the display in the lobby and an education event beginning tonight at 11pm. Check out the global messages for more information.
“It brings me comfort and encouragement to have companions in whatever happens.”
- Dio Chrysostom
Pastoral Care Week continues. Check out our display today in the lobby. Check out the global messages for more information.
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- Carl Jung
Today begins Pastoral Care Week. Watch for displays and educational events that we hope brings a healing presence to CMH. Check out the global messages for more information.
“You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right.”
~ Jack Canfield
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
– James Baldwin
“Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
~ Harriet Tubman
During this weekend, many faiths are celebrating Children’s Sabbath, a day to celebrate children and bring awareness to global poverty issues. For more information, please consider http://www.childrensdefense.org/programs-campaigns/faith-based-action/childrens-sabbaths/
“The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the more loving-friendliness you cultivate to help the world.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Pictured above miner Mario Gomez, 63, the oldest of the 33 trapped miners, celebrates as he arrives on the surface as the ninth to be rescued in
“Love and time; those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”
- Gary Jennings
“We become... a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
- Jimmy Carter
“Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.”
- Elbert Green Hubbard
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- Lao Tzu
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
~ Andrew Jackson
“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
~ Mary Engelbreit
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
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