A conversation on hope – video
Dr Dave Johnson and I spent some time talking about the importance and nature of hope. We both work in
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Practical daily research
How can I get better at pastoral care? I can pay attention to my own practice, my own interactions with husbands and wives, parents and children, moments of excruciating difficulty. In each of those moments (or immediately after) I can ask myself, “What am I learning that will help me with the next one of those moments. What questions can I ask myself and others? What can I learn about attending to bits of information and infusing them back into the care all of us provide?”
When visiting people in the ER, look them in the eyes.
Some of us are squeamish about blood, especially in the hospital. So when we need to visit a friend, family
10 simple phrases when visiting in the first hours after a death.
I’m sorry. Nothing: (Sixty seconds of silence) May I take care of that? (and take the tissue out of their
Can my loved one hear me?
In the last hours and minutes of people’s lives, laying in hospital and hospice beds, we often hear the question,
Remember the best conversation, not necessarily the last one.
People often say, “I wish I had told them I loved them” the last time they spoke with their loved
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