Journal of Sacred Work

Latest Posts

  • The Second Seed- Awakening Potential in Others

    One of our greatest abilities is to awaken potential in others. The ways we do that inform us about how to awaken potential in ourselves. Continue reading

  • Potential -The Second Seed- Continued –

    There is no more clear incarnation of potential in this world than a new born baby. All of life opens before my granddaughter just as it did for each of us at our births. Continue reading

  • The Second Seed of Loving Care – Potential

    Because 19 year-old Robert Hawkins couldn’t find a loving purpose in his life, he ended his life, and the lives of eight other innocent people in a murderous rampage through an Omaha mall. “Just think, I’m gonna be famous,” he… Continue reading

  • Open Forum – Purpose

       During the first part of this week, we reflected on the role of purpose in the garden of Love. My own life purpose was enhanced yesterday, Thursday morning, Dec. 6, when I learned that our daughter had given birth… Continue reading

  • Love’s Song

    My radio is tuned to a station that now plays Christmas music around the clock. I am one of many who love this season and what it represents. And, yes, I start playing Christmas music as soon as the Thanksgiving… Continue reading

  • The First Seed of Purpose, Continued – Frankl’s Meaning

    The importance of the purpose seed in the Garden of Love is reinforced by the story of one of the most powerful spokespeople for meaning. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl, M.D. described his experience surviving a… Continue reading

  • The First Seed in the Garden of Love – Purpose

    As obvious as it sounds, there’s not much point in beginning any effort unless we have some idea of purpose. The purpose of the New Garden of Loving Care is that the garden will help us Live Love, not fear.… Continue reading

  • A New Garden

    From 1997 to 2001 I regularly sought the support and counsel of what is referred to by some as a spiritual adviser. The gifted woman stayed with me through several difficult changes in my life. Through that period, the one… Continue reading

  • Open Forum on Loving Care

        In yesterday’s Journal, I wrote about the Apostle John’s statement that God is love. If you accept this as true, than Loving care is Godly care.    How does this interpretation affect the way you think of your… Continue reading

  • God As Love

    The last three words in the Apostle John’s first letter, “God is love,” are, to my mind, among the most important in all of the Bible. John tells us “who” God is. He doesn’t describe God as male or female,… Continue reading