Journal of Sacred Work

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  • Days 326-328 – Open Forum on Loving Care

    Whatever the question, Love is the answer. – Written on a blackboard at Alive Hospice in Nashville.    When I asked Karen York of Alive Hospice about the above quote, she said, "I thought I got that from you." No… Continue reading

  • Day 325 – Building Community

    "Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came… Continue reading

  • Day 324 – Love’s Wisdom

    When I see your true essence, I see the face of God, the light of Love, which is, was, and always will be present in you and in me. Love is abundant, and when Love is shared it expands out… Continue reading

  • Day 323 – The Beauty of Peace

    Yet, we know that peace is not something that comes to us from weather or even from the absence of war. Peace comes from within. Continue reading

  • Day 322 – The Continuous Beauty of the Soul

    Perhaps the answer is that all souls are beautiful because the soul is Love. Love knows only beauty. The meanness that flows from many people is not arising from their souls. Instead, it comes from some other place, probably from… Continue reading

  • Days 318-321 – Watching

    The following meditation was written by Cathy Self, Senior Vice President for the Baptist Healing Trust. Work\ n: an opportunity for discovering and shaping; the place where the self meets the world." (From David Whyte's Crossing the Unknown Sea. Work… Continue reading

  • Day 317 – You As A Poem

    Take a look at yourself. You are a poem. You are work of art. You are a human drama. And you are a gift from God. Continue reading

  • Day 316 – Attending to Dreams

    Now I pierce the darkness, new beings appear,The earth recedes from me into the night,I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the   earth is beautiful.-Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass – begun in 1855, completed… Continue reading

  • Day 315 – Singing the Body Electric

    Caregivers, I sing your praises today and everyday. For you are the ones who offer your loving energy to meet the needs of bodies and souls who experience the pain of living in this world. Continue reading

  • Days 312-314 – Open Forum Question on Love & Fear

       How would you describe the balance of Love and fear in your life? For example, how much of your life is governed by fear and worry as opposed to Love and serenity?   Conscious awareness of questions like these has… Continue reading