Care is mutual—one who gives it also receives it. Everyone is at some point in time both a giver and receiver of care. Care is both attitude and action. It is being positively disposed toward another. Care is seeking the best interest of another. But it is also allowing that disposition, or attitude, to issue in concrete acts. Certainly, chaplains do not have a monopoly on care in a hospital. Care is expected of all people who work there. Care is pastoral when its power and focus are seen to be beyond