Journal of Sacred Work

caregivers

  • Day 45 – A Valentine’s Day Prayer

    The gifts of Love are the only ones that matter. These gifts are great, endless & the reason for our lives. Today, like every day, caregivers send loving gifts out not only to their families, but to their patients Continue reading

  • Day 42 – Why Change is Necessary & Painful

    When we fix our eyes on Love and understand the importance of Love as a purposeful goal, the pain of change becomes no more than a side effect. Continue reading

  • Day 31 – Perpetual Beginnings

    As monotonous as some tasks seem, each time we do one of them we are doing that thing for the first time. The nurse, the surgeon, and the social worker interviewing her fifth client of the day would all do… Continue reading

  • Day 23 – Loving Purpose – A Must-See Movie for Caregivers!

    When is the last time a movie changed the way you look at life? That’s what the promotional language for the best film of the year says. They’re right. If The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is showing at any… Continue reading

  • One Sunday Morning

    One Sunday morning Father George began his homily by declaring, “My goal is threefold; 1) have something to say, 2) say it 3) and then shut-up.” This caused me to sit up at attention and listen to his message of… Continue reading

  • Passion – The Third Seed

    Imagine the notion of living in this world like Brother Lawrence as if there were none but you and God in it. Imagine that everything boils down to your relationship with Love. How would this change your world and that… Continue reading

  • Potential -The Second Seed- Continued –

    There is no more clear incarnation of potential in this world than a new born baby. All of life opens before my granddaughter just as it did for each of us at our births. Continue reading

  • A Post Christian Era?

    The idea that we may be living in a post-Christian era is startling to some, a news bulletin to others. But the evidence is mounting that some of the older forms of Christians expression are moribund. The Catholic Church, riven… Continue reading