Journal of Sacred Work

Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality

Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories

  • Days 102-106 – Symbols of Love

    Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking, and directing, agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing. Continue reading

  • Days 100-101: Kindness

    "No act of kindness no matter how small…is ever wasted." -Aesop An empathetic gesture, a word of caring or a random act of kindness can awaken one's heart. These experiences evoke a metamorphosis of sorts. Yet it is a very private experience,… Continue reading

  • Days 94-99 – “Just a bunch of rocks”

    Words matter. Seeing a beach as “just sand” blocks Beauty’s embrace. Caregivers who label patients cannot heal. Compassionate language helps caregivers become healers. Continue reading

  • Days 92-93 Hope

       What gives you hope?   Is it the dawning of a new day or the twilight of stars first twinklings?   A stranger's smile as you glimpse each other's soul in passing or quiet moments of solitude?   What… Continue reading

  • Days 86-91 – Hidden Genius

    There is a genius living in my backyard. It is this Willow Leaf Oak. He features his own brain & a trunk stronger than Goliath. Pansies adore him. Continue reading

  • Days 84-85 Sometimes

    Note: David Whyte's poetry, shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel l Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to… Continue reading

  • Days 79-83 – How To Be Content

    Offer loving care to patients for your own benefit, not just for the patient. Caregivers tell me that when they do that they feel…more content. Continue reading

  • Days 77-78 Infinitely More

    Note: offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust We are immediately disarmed by Finley’s charm and humorous recounting of his mansion metaphor. It feels… Continue reading

  • Days 72-76 – Is Apple The New Apple? Can Compassion Survive the Robot Age?

    Compassion expresses love to those in pain. If we become pain-free robots why would we need it? Are we too quick to claim that computers can never be programed to be creative & compassionate. If not not, can we say… Continue reading

  • Days 70-71 One Heart

    Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel “For you must realize that earth unfolds its properties and powers in union with Heaven aloft above us, and there is one Heart, one Being, one Will, one God, all in all.” -German mystic,… Continue reading