Journal of Sacred Work

Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality

Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories

  • Days 301-302 The Day is Sacred

    Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel. "In silence we must wrap much of our life, because it is too fine for speech." – Ralph Waldo Emerson   The above quote was shared by Erie Chapman in the Journal of… Continue reading

  • Days 299-303 – Leonardo Da Vinci & The Woodpecker’s Tongue

    “”He was the greatest creative genius in history & the ultimate example of someone who connected art & science & spirit,” Walter Isaacson says. We can probably learn more from Leonardo Da Vinci than we can from any other person… Continue reading

  • Days 297-298 “Enter the Struggle”

     Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel             Enter the Struggle   …we are challenged           to pour ourselves                   into the human endeavor…                           Knowing full well                                   that it is the struggles                                         and how… Continue reading

  • Days 292-296 – Pieces of Love

    “The heart is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” Rumi wrote. The 13th century Persian mystic wrote glorious poetry & not a verse of it is out of date. We want our hearts to be dwelling places for Love. Yet,… Continue reading

  • Days 290-291 Simple Eloquence

    Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Nature is our greatest teacher. She has so much wisdom to reveal about the mysteries of life and of death, of ending and beginnings. The wonders of Mother Earth reflect answers to the… Continue reading

  • 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 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