Journal of Sacred Work

Meditations

  • Trusting Mystery

    The caregivers who seem most joyful to me are those who respond to mystery not with hyper-analysis, but with gratitude. They admire the Glasswing, they celebrate great art, and they deepen their appreciation of the world by cultivating radical presence.… Continue reading

  • Open Forum – How Have You Changed?

      Journals and meditations are often designed either to illuminate positive change or to bring it about. We read and meditate to find the kind of peace and wisdom that will help us travel the best pathway in life.   What… Continue reading

  • The Authenticity of Ashes

    Two weeks ago I posted thoughts shared from a young mother’s heart whose child had just been born and was not expected to live. Copeland’s birth was a miracle, that she lived for eight days is beyond our grasp, that… Continue reading

  • Safe From Evil?

    Does knowledge of our spirituality really protect us from evil? Perhaps, a knowledge of our spirituality disarms one of evil’s greatest weapons – its ability to enchant us and to frighten us. Continue reading

  • Strange But True

    But what are we to do if we live in a culture that prefers the average. I can only answer in the words of the employee who wrote me: “I’m still going to keep doing a great job no matter… Continue reading

  • Avoiding Love

    We can be companions to those in pain. Our presence alone brings relief. For loving presence signals to the other that they do not suffer alone. Continue reading

  • Early Autumn

    This autumn will be the last season for many with terminal illness. It will be the last fall for Dr. Pausch, who’s last lecture will live awhile longer on the internet. And it will be the first season for many… Continue reading

  • A Dying Professor’s Last Message – Have Fun!

    Not many of us will have the chance to make a final speech in such circumstances. But, of course, we are all dying. So the question becomes, as Pausch tells us, not how we die but how we are living.… Continue reading

  • Comfort Movies

    Lots of people complain that Americans watch too much television. For me, great movies aren’t “television.” They invite us into a magic land where, for a time, we live for a couple of hours with stars who feel like old… Continue reading

  • Open Forum – Group Relationships

    I’ve been surprised, recently, to rediscover the degree to which our lives are defined by our relationships not to people, but to groups. We start life in the context of family. Soon, we determine who we are in the milieu… Continue reading