Journal of Sacred Work

Reflections, Holidays, Spirituality

Christmas, Light, Hope, Winter Solstice, Memories

  • Days 356-360 – Music & Your Soul

    “Music lives at the center of our humanity. It brings meaning to Christmas, to Hannukah to all of our sacred celebrations.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • Days 354-355 Blessings of Love

      In the fullness of life we can experience the many nuances of love. The Ancient Greek’s were able to distinguish the various facets of love imbued in the words; xenia, philia. storge, eros and agape. Xenia is the word… Continue reading

  • Days 349-353 – Winter Comforts

    “Your quiet joys are not guilty pleasures. Cultivating your comforts provides the rest you need to live Love.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • Days 347-348 Your True Inheritance

      To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance. -David Whyte  Love is the source of… Continue reading

  • Days 342-344 – Loving Your Space

    “Love always circles back to the lover…Love the space you occupy and the space will love you. Treat your environment as sacred and you become a part of the sacred…There is no more sacred “space” than the spiritual square footage… Continue reading

  • Days 340-341 Truly, Solely, Madly…Be

    In a famous Princeton study, a group of Seminarians were recruited under the guise of religious education. The seminarians were asked to give a talk on the parable of the Good Samaritan. They were divided into two groups where the… Continue reading

  • Days 335-339 – Are We More Compassionate?

    “Today’s artists weave on looms of light unavailable in earlier eras…Only Radical Loving Care can change the human heart but most of us will not let it in. If we did, we would discover that odd phenomenon that always surprises… Continue reading

  • Days 333-334 For Beauty’s Sake

    They were born at the same hour, same day and year, on June 13, 1935 but they grew up in different parts of the world. He was a refugee from Bulgaria and she came from a military family in Casablanca,… Continue reading

  • Days 328-330 – Opening Your Heart to the World

    “Fear is the moat around the castle of your heart. It is the only thing that can stop God’s Love from entering you.” Reverend Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • Days 326-327 Hannah Wore Her Dancing Shoes

    "The outcome of the world, the gates of the future…these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all… Continue reading