Journal of Sacred Work

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  • Days 123-124 No Where to Go

    Note: Reflection by Liz Sorensen Wessel. Each morning on my drive to work I see the tents along the river bank and I wonder, who are these people and what are their stories? It is startling to see a river… Continue reading

  • Days 117-122 – 11 Truths About Imagination

    “I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination,” Keats wrote. Imagination breathes youth & vitality into our lives – if only we will let it. Continue reading

  • Days 115-116 The Soul of a Mountain

    Note: Excerpt from the writing of David Whyte " The World Also Has a Soul."     "The first step to preserving the soul in our individual lives is to admit that the world has a soul also, and is… Continue reading

  • Days 109-114 – Between Easters: Love & The Harrowing of Hell

    Earth’s hells are the asylums of the sick & wounded. Caregivers descend there each day to rescue us from our suffering. Continue reading

  • Days 107-108 Easter Blessing

      By the late John O' Donohue  “On this Easter, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – old pains, old habits,… Continue reading

  • Days 102-106 – Symbols of Love

    Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking, and directing, agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing. Continue reading

  • Days 100-101: Kindness

    "No act of kindness no matter how small…is ever wasted." -Aesop An empathetic gesture, a word of caring or a random act of kindness can awaken one's heart. These experiences evoke a metamorphosis of sorts. Yet it is a very private experience,… Continue reading

  • Days 94-99 – “Just a bunch of rocks”

    Words matter. Seeing a beach as “just sand” blocks Beauty’s embrace. Caregivers who label patients cannot heal. Compassionate language helps caregivers become healers. Continue reading

  • Days 92-93 Hope

       What gives you hope?   Is it the dawning of a new day or the twilight of stars first twinklings?   A stranger's smile as you glimpse each other's soul in passing or quiet moments of solitude?   What… Continue reading

  • Days 86-91 – Hidden Genius

    There is a genius living in my backyard. It is this Willow Leaf Oak. He features his own brain & a trunk stronger than Goliath. Pansies adore him. Continue reading