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Doctoring and parenting – Presence

November 16, 2025 By Robert Saul

Doctoring and parenting are very similar in so many ways. They both require presence.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: adverse childhood experiences, attentive, attuned, compassion, doctoring, empathy, humility, intuition, medicine, mercy, parenting, positive childhood experiences, presence, respect, responsive, trust, uncertainty

Love, Grace, and Mercy

October 11, 2025 By Robert Saul

Our children need to be the recipients of love, grace and mercy so they can pass them on to the lives of their children in the next generation.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: grace, love, love for others, mercy

Aphorisms to live by

March 9, 2025 By Robert Saul

Aphorisms tend to ring true, provoking reflection and hopefully inspiring beneficial actions.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, aphorisms, Barack Obama, better is good, charity, civility, cost of lies, Craig Mazin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, evil of silence, freedom, James Keenan, Leland Kaiser, malice, Margaret Mead, mercy, our better angels, Robert Saul, Timothy Snyder, trust

The Challenge of Mercy

December 18, 2022 By Robert Saul

Mercy

Mercy is that peculiar quality that at times seems ephemeral (transient, temporary) yet pervasive in its calling.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: Bryan Stevenson, Chaos of others, compassion, Dawn Turner, mercy

MERCY

April 27, 2022 By Robert Saul

Mercy

Whether engaged in medical service as a physician or community service as a citizen, we need to let mercy be our guide and let compassion and forbearance lead us forward.

Filed Under: Thoughts Tagged With: chaos, mercy

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