Light Moment

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.  Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.  Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

~ Theodore Geisel

 

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Light Moment

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

~ Crowfoot

 

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Light Moment

We cannot change life!  We can only change the way we live life.

Any moment is the best moment, and any place is the best place.

~ Tishan

 

 

 

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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

 

 

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Forgiveness will never fail to free you.

~ Jerrold Mundis

 

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"Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed."

-  Andrew Weil

 

Spiritual Care Services wants to thank you for making Spiritual Care Week 2013 a wonderful time.  Please know that we are always available to you!

 

 

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

~ Marcel Proust

As a special treat for Spiritual Care Week, Bishop Horace E. Smith, M.D., Attending Physician in Hematology, Oncology, & Transplantation will offer a special talk entitled Medicine and Faith...Compatible?

TODAY! Friday, October 25, 2013

12:00-1:00 pm

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Conference Center

Rooms 11-152 & 11-160

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You will need a heart rather than a map in your journey to the right path.

- Louise Philippe Dulay

 

As we continue Spiritual Care Week, please consider if you know someone else who might enjoy Light Moment daily emails both inside the hospital and beyond.  If so, please have them email me at lkelley@luriechildrens.org.

 

 

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We have, we are, a mosaic of gifts

To nurture, to offer, to accept.

We need to be.

Just be.

- Mattie Stepanek, from the poem "For Our World"

 

As we continue Spiritual Care Week, attached you will find a blessing from the chaplains to you!  And remember, we are always available!  We can be reached by paging 73288.

 

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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 

We are continuing through Spiritual Care Week.  Please know that we are always available to you!  We can always be reached by paging 73288.

 

 

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

 

We are continuing in Spiritual Care Week.  Did you know that the Anne Searle Bent Interfaith Chapel, located on the 12th floor, is open 27/7 and has a mediation/prayer room and many religious resources available?  We hope you'll talk with us about more ways we can support your needs!

 

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We rise by lifting others.

~ Robert Ingersoll

 

Today begins Spiritual Care Week! Our theme this year is "prophetic voice."

 

 

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You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

~ unknown

 

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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

~ Ray Bradbury

 

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The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

~ Henry Miller

 

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In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

 

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To strengthen the muscles of your heart, the best exercise is lifting someone else's spirit whenever you can.

                                                                                                                              ~ Dodinsky

 

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Light Moment

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

~ Les Brown

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