A Compilation of Prayers & Poems
Below are some prayers for healthcare staff, some of which I read during Leadership Huddles. I invite you to utilize these prayers for yourself or for your team as you see fit. Prayers are a way to mindfully validate and affirm our gratitudes and the good of our individual and organizational work, as well to name the difficulties and challenges that we face, and to name our intentions and hopes for the future. The spiritual practice of openly naming our gratitudes, as well as our deep needs, desires, and hopes, can be a way to positively ground our hearts and spirits.
Below are some prayers for healthcare staff, some of which I read during Leadership Huddles. I invite you to utilize these prayers for yourself or for your team as you see fit. Prayers are a way to mindfully validate and affirm our gratitudes and the good of our individual and organizational work, as well to name the difficulties and challenges that we face, and to name our intentions and hopes for the future. The spiritual practice of openly naming our gratitudes, as well as our deep needs, desires, and hopes, can be a way to positively ground our hearts and spirits.
- As You Love the Only World We Have
- A Blessing for Caregivers
- For A Nurse
- Beannacht
- Reminders
- An Invitation to Breath & Mystery & Courage
- Companioning One
- Sacred Waiting
- If Words Could Heal
- A Blessing for the Weary
- Meta Meditation: A Practice of Loving Kindness
- Healers Needing Healing
- Written on Your Heart
- A New Day
- A Love Song to All the Helpers
- Poem: The Invitation
- Prayer for Spring
- An Apache Blessing
- New Life
- On the Present Moment
- Of Molluscs
- So Much Happiness
- A Blessing In a Time of Violence
- Lighting Candles Amidst Gun Violence
- Mantle of Peace
- On Redemption
- Lord's Prayer translated directly from Aramaic
- A Blessing for Trans & Non-Binary People
- Our Deepest Fear
- A Cure For It All
- The Most Important Thing
- Right Here
- A Blessing for Labor Day
- Great Spirit Prayer (Lakota Prayer)
- Earth, Teach Me (Ute Prayer)
- The Garden Is Rich (Chinook Psalter)
- Diane's Retirement Blessing
- Autumn Welcoming
- Autumn Days Are For Watching
- A Blessing for the Longest Night
- The Sacrament of Letting Go
- Solstice Blessing
- Winter Blessing
- Winter Blessing (To-Do's)
- A Spring Blessing
- A Seed Psalm
- Coming Alive Again
- Morning Meditation
- Summer Morning Centering Meditation
- Gratitude (by David Whyte)
- May the Light of Your Soul Guide You
- Wonder in Routine
- Human Connection
- Hand to Heart Meditation
