Sam Oliver's Journal Add Entry10 Feb 2008 09:44 AMThe Landscape of the SoulThrough the years, we accumulate a series of experiences. Our tendency is to evaluate and simply reflect on what we have been through and what we have learned. This inward site into what we can no longer see with our eyes allows us to see through them, and into, our soul. Read more | Send this to a friend | Comments (0) | 10 Feb 2008 09:25 AMThe Power of Prayer to HealOn one occasion, I was asked to go into a room and be with a daughter whose Mom was dying. Mom was expected to die not long after I was to enter the room. When I went into the room, the daughter was at her Mom's bedside. She did die not long after I had entered the room. Her husband was on his way to be with his wife and daughter of this patient. He did not make it in time. Read more | Send this to a friend | Comments (0) | 03 Mar 2007 07:16 PMThe Heart of GriefHospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care. Hospice care is a phase of care whereby aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate. Read more | Send this to a friend | Comments (0) | 03 Mar 2007 04:38 PMWhat the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living by Samuel Lee OliverDying people have much to teach us about living in soul. I have witnessed people of all races, ages, genders, and sexual orientation let go of the life they have come to know. One thing becomes clear "everyone learns to love the life they have been given. |
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