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psst. Lost in translation? Bill Bazely UKBHC Registered Chaplain. psst. translation trans·la·tion (tr ns-l sh n, tr nz-) n. 1 a. The act or process of translating, especially from one language into another. b. The state of being translated. 2. A translated version of a text.
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psst... Lost in translation? Bill Bazely UKBHC Registered Chaplain
psst... translation trans·la·tion (tr ns-l sh n, tr nz-) n. 1 a. The act or process of translating, especially from one language into another. b. The state of being translated. 2. A translated version of a text. 3. Physics Motion of a body in which every point of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point of the body. 4. Biology The process by which messenger RNA directs the amino acid sequence of a growing polypeptide during protein synthesis.
psst... The Place I Want to Get Back To is where in the pinewoods in the moments between the darkness and first light two deer came walking down the hill and when they saw me
they said to each other, okay, this one is okay, let’s see who she is and why she is sitting On the ground, like that, so quiet, as if asleep, or in a dream, but, anyway, harmless; psst...
and so they came on their slender legs and gazed upon me not unlike the way I go out to the dunes and look and look and look into the faces of the flowers; and then one of them leaned forward psst...
and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life bring to me that could exceed that brief moment? For twenty years I have gone every day to the same woods, not waiting, exactly, just lingering. Such gifts, bestowed, can’t be repeated. psst...
If you want to talk about this come to visit. I live in the house near the corner, which I have named Gratitude. Mary Oliver Thirst 2007 psst...
What will you be taking back from this place to your place, today? Though we might like to linger we have to go. psst... How will you translate what you have found here into your life, your relationships, your practice?
How do we manage Gift and Loss? psst... How do we move from Spiritual Desolation to Spiritual Consolation?
An unexpected encounter with gift and loss psst...
An unexpected encounter with gift and loss psst...
An unexpected encounter with gift and loss psst...
An unexpected encounter with gift and loss psst...
What do chaplains do? psst... The Core Task: Seeking people who need them Identifying the nature of the need Responding to the need through theological and spiritual praxis Mowat & Swinton, What do Chaplains do?, 2005
What do I do? psst... I seek to be a person, recognising others as people and supporting them in being human beings.
psst... Guidelines on spirituality for staff in acute care services. 2008 www.virtualward.org.uk
psst... Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on Spirituality for staff in acute care services – CSIP 2008 www.virtualward.org.uk
psst... NHS Modernisation Agency 2005 - Good care planning for people with long-term conditions
psst... Spirituality and Identity, from Guidelines on Spirituality for staff in acute care services – CSIP 2008 www.virtualward.org.uk
psst... One definition of spirituality …Lartey proposes that spirituality has five dimensions, which must be understood as belonging together in an integrated whole. Lartey, E.Y. (1996), In Living Colour, London, Cassell
psst... Transcendence Self Another Place and Things Among people One definition of spirituality …built on relationship
psst... Spiritual Care Matters Copies of this document are available, on request, in audio and large print formats and in community languages. Please call 0131 313 8000. NHS Education for Scotland Thistle House 91 Haymarket Terrace EDINBURGH EH12 5HE www.nes.scot.nhs.uk February 2009
psst... New Horizons: working together for better mental health Good mental health is important to us all. The cost of mental ill health touches us all every day, whether we are aware of it or not, and the effects on sufferers and their families can be devastating. 2010 http://www.newhorizons.dh.gov.uk/index.aspx
The Fist There are days when the sun goes down like a fist, though of course if you see anything in the heavens in this way you had better get psst...
your eyes checked or, better still, your diminished spirit. The heavens have no fist, or wouldn’t they have been shaking it for a thousand years now, psst...
and even longer than that, at the dull, brutish ways of mankind - heaven’s own creation? Instead: such patience! Such willingness psst...
to let us continue! To hear, little by little, the voices - only, so far, in pockets of the world - suggesting the possibilities psst...
of peace? Keep looking. Behold, how the fist opens with invitation. Mary Oliver Thirst 2007 psst...
Lost in translation? psst... Keep listening to those voices Keep looking – in awe and wonder Keep on Journeying