Journal of Sacred Work

Erie Chapman Foundation

  • Days 310-314 – Everyday Confessions

    Why is confession “good for the soul?” Does arrogance block our ability to see our own personality problem? Does acceptance put us on the path to a certain kind of salvation? Continue reading

  • Days 308-309 The Space Within the Heart

    Note: Reflection by Liz Sorensen Wessel "Deep in our DNA we belong to the stars, the trees and the galaxies." ~ Ilia Delio "The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the… Continue reading

  • Days 303-307 – Preparing for Perfection – Monna Vanna to Mona Lisa

    You have trained all of your life to become your best at your work. Perhaps, you have only been making drawings & drafts & are just now ready to create your personal masterpiece.  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 The 13th century Persian mystic wrote glorious poetry & not a verse of it is out of date.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