Erie Chapman Foundation
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Days 301-305 – Autumn Sun?
Anais Nin wrote, “We do not see things as they are./We see them as we are.” Why do you & I see the identical picture in different ways & thus experience different feelings? Continue reading
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Days 299-300 Hope In The Midst of Struggle
“Everywhere I looked, hope existed – but only as some kind of green shoot in the midst of struggle. It was a theological concept, not a spiritual practice. Hope, I began to realize, was not a state of life. It… Continue reading
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Days 294-298 – Different Kinds of Theft
A 1974 bank robbery serves triggers discussion crimes that are worse than breaking written laws. Continue reading
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Days 287-291 – Angels or Ghosts?
By reimagining our life stories we can disarm Fear. Bullies that terrorized & betrayers who disappointed can become the scared beings who found no other way to act. New stories can light our way across Fear’s bridge to Love’s lake, home… Continue reading
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Days 285-286 Graceful Receiving
"When I walk outside the studio and a child comes up and gives me a hug… I know that is the field I want to be growing in. It’s not the fancy people in this world who seem to nourish… Continue reading
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Days 290-286 – A Person of Value in a Culture of Meaning – The Thread That Holds Your Life Together
For our lives to matter you & I must believe we are people of value in a culture of meaning. “There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you… Continue reading
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Days 280-284 – A Unique & Sacred Gift
Imagine a friend spending one of her final hours buying you a gift. Opened, it may soon end up in the closet of the forgotten. Wrapped it may become, as here, unique, sacred & a holy expression of one of… Continue reading
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Days 271-272 At One with Oneself!
Note: Guest reflection by the fabulous Terry Chapman PhD. To be at one with oneself should be a primary life goal. But getting to that point in one’s life journey requires the courage to keep moving toward a more integrated… Continue reading
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Days 273-277 “Provided we stay brave…”
“The forest is mostly dark, its ways to be made anew day after day, the dark richer than the light and more blessed, provided we stay brave enough to keep on going in.” Wendell Berry Continue reading
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Days 264-265 Come with Me
This past week I've learned a little about the life of a remarkable woman, Maya Angelou. So often our greatest hardships unleash within us our greatest gifts. When Maya was seven years of age she was raped and had to… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 