Journal of Sacred Work

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  • Days 285-289 – The Healer’s Gaze

    They gaze at each other, sunlit beings linked by blood, separated in age by three years & one month, joined forever in the love of sister & brother. Two-week-old Reed Chapman owns that baby’s ability to stare unselfconsciously because he is… Continue reading

  • Days 284-284 Love is What Carries Us

    Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Blessing When the World is Ending Look, the worldis always endingsomewhere. Somewherethe sun has comecrashing down. Somewhereit has gonecompletely dark. Somewhereit has endedwith the gun,the knife,the fist. Somewhereit has endedwith the slammed door,the… Continue reading

  • Days 279-283 – Always Dreaming

    “We dream – it is good we are dreaming -/ It would hurt us were we awake…” Does Dickinson’s quote reflect how you feel? Was Plato right when he wrote that “All of life is a dream?” Continue reading

  • Days 277-278 Sometimes

    “That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.” Frances Hodgson Burnett Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel At P.S. 68 elementary in the Bronx, New York the bookmobile… Continue reading

  • Days 272-276 – Where the Temple Begins

    There are hundreds of lessons that can be gleaned from watching geese in flight. Yet, the most important appears in three lines from Mary Oliver, “There are things you can’t reach. But/you can reach out to them, and all day… Continue reading

  • Days 270-271 Prayers For Peace

    Shared by Liz Wessel “The International Day of Peace is a day on which we try to imagine a world quite different from the one we know. We try to picture those who wage war laying down their arms and… Continue reading

  • Days 265-269 The Power of Play

    “Perhaps, it is when we unite work & play that we do our best caregiving – for each other as well as for the patient before us.” Continue reading

  • Days 263-264 “The Fire in Your Heart”

    Note: Reflection shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel By Breath By breath, by blood, by body, by spirit, we are all one The air that is my breath is the air that you are breathing And the air that is your… Continue reading

  • Days 258-262 – Delight & Mystery

    Love holds us as close as we allow. She is Mystery & Delight – ready to wrap us in her veil of joy. The only question is whether we will accept her gentle invitation. Continue reading

  • Days 256-257 In Its Gentle Light

    There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you. All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet.… Continue reading