Journal of Sacred Work

Meditations

  • Dream Life

    the Journal is primarily about presence to our lives. What does life look like when we are unable to manage that presence? Part of the answer may lie in calling ourselves to a new level attention about our dream life.… Continue reading

  • Til Death Do Us Part

    Perhaps all of life’s smaller losses prepare us for the big one. Like the rest between two notes, in the spaces between checking things off a grand, worthwhile, to-do list and browsing for shoes on nordstrom.com, there will be moments… Continue reading

  • Retreat & Reflection

    The realization that we have been Loved into being, moment by moment is a humbling experience. To delve deeper into this understanding of being Loved endlessly, even in our brokenness, Loved regardless of achievement of failure, is cause for reverence… Continue reading

  • Life While You Wait

    One of the cornerstones of the work of loving care is the notion of “presence”. We work toward attaining some sort of balance in our lives so that while we are in a moment, we are really “in the moment”.… Continue reading

  • Self-Love

    The beginning of renewed or deepening self-love may be sparked by spending some time in reflection. Continue reading

  • Fatigue & The Journal

    When you are tired, what brings you energy? Sometimes, when I’m most worn out, as I am this evening, I find a strange kind of energy comes from forcing myself to do something physical, like moving around, or something mental,… Continue reading

  • How We Change

    We cannot create our own epiphanies. We can only ready ourselves so that, if we are fortunate, we will recognize that God is present, if only we can see. Continue reading

  • One Ambition

    It may not fuel fulfillment, but ambition drives people to achieve goals. Caregivers are called to continuous excellence because their work is sacred. – Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • “Brave of the Dark”

    Where does courage come from? We can talk all we want about faith and faith is, ultimately, our deepest refuge. Meanwhile, the kindness of caregivers is the vessel that can carry us through the roughest seas. You, as a caregiver,… Continue reading

  • A Favorite Painter

    I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.   – Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)    Across the arc of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe created an extraordinary body of work… Continue reading