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I was moved by an NPR story this week that I wanted to share with you.

It was about some trauma workers, a team at the University of Virginia emergency room.

And they described having over time been with so many people that died that there was a

kind of numbing going on.

And recently after one of the patients died, one of the nurses just stayed for some

moments.

She took a pause and she just offered her prayers.

And then the next time it happened, the whole team stayed with her.

And they all paused for a few moments.

And each one reported feeling really touched.

Like that allowed them to sense the wholeness of that being.

That this was not just an object that was checking off.

The list was like a being.

And they sense a kind of sacredness to the process by taking those few moments to pause.

And then after that, teams through the hospital picked it up and now it's kind of spreading

around the country, which is so wise and beautiful.

And we can sense it in our bodies that we need to be able to pause when we encounter whether

it's death or birth or stress or beauty or moments with each other in a certain way.

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