Journal of Sacred Work

Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality

Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories

  • Days 206-210 – The Leaders #1 Job

    The leader’s most important job: take care of the people who take care of people. When people ask “How Did You Lead Three Hospital Systems to Success?” I say: If you want great care for patients then take great care… Continue reading

  • Days 204-205 Life Is…

        The home is the most intimate setting to receive healthcare. Caregivers (clinicians; we are all caregivers, one to another) who go into a person’s home to provide care, enter as stranger and quickly become relied upon as a… Continue reading

  • Days 199-203 The Wild Soul

    We feel most isolated when we lose touch with beauty. God’s love frees our earthly spirits to “be wild” with our own love; to be drunk on Mother Nature. And to care for the suffering. Continue reading

  • Days 97-198 You Can Make the Mountains Ring

    "If you hear the song I sing You will understand (listen!) You hold the key to love and fear All in your trembling hand Just one key unlocks them both It's there at you command" Excerpt from the song, "Get… Continue reading

  • Days 190-191 Two by Two

    "The ark of peace is entered two by two." A Course in Miracles It is easy to turn away from a stranger, the unknown other, from the faceless in a crowded sea of otherness. We may feel guarded, fearful or… Continue reading

  • Days 183-184 “In The Family of Things”

      Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, Are heading home gain. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, The world offers itself to your imagination, Calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting- Over… Continue reading

  • Days 176-177 A Special Kind of Artist

    "An artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."- Ananda Coomaraswamy A friend, mentor, artist and spiritual sage, Sr. Madeleva opened her "Art and Contemplation" class with the above quote. Her… Continue reading

  • Days 171-175 – “Eternity’s Sunrise” or Will This Poem Change Your Life?

     Is any art or any poetry powerful enough to change how you view the world? We often do not know these important things unless we seek to answer such questions.  Continue reading

  • Days 169-170 The Nature of Fathering

    Note: special thanks to Terry Chapman for this insightful Father's Day Reflection. If I close my eyes and envision my father from childhood, we are climbing up a steep hill carrying two pairs of black wooden skis; his are normal… Continue reading

  • Days 164-168 – Other Realities

    She awakes in a forest that she knows & encounters one she knows not. From my altered states I am sure everyday reality is shallow as a birdbath. “Recent studies of superstring theory relating to the smallest subatomic particles suggest… Continue reading