Spiritual Formation

How’s your prayer habit? Are you on remote control, or are you emulating powerful prayers from Scripture?

Remembering an oncology nurse whose own cancer battle is now over is one way to celebrate the life and nursing ministry of a beloved friend.

Permission to breathe, to celebrate, to grieve, to be present--sacred space is what God desires with each of us.

Gratitude is both a spiritual practice and a health-producing, research-supported mindset, even—especially—when life is dry and hard.

How can a nurse frame his or her work stress to good effect? One evidence-based option is considering one’s work as sacred.

Professional development is a continual process for nurses, and mentoring is a means for novice and experienced nurses to grow professionally and spiritually.

Hard times and suffering aren’t merely awful—God can produce GOOD through these when we exercise spiritual resilience.

When slogging through long days while holding off fears and the unknown can resemble an over-long hike around a marshy lagoon, hold onto invincible hope.

In the crazy-busy days of nursing care, forms of prayer that are crisp and concise can sustain, nourish, and center us in ways that can be folded into the relentless movement of the day.

When Mary, the birth mother of Jesus, sang the first Christmas carol, she created a magnificent prayer that can powerfully revive our hearts and spirits.

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