Journal of Sacred Work

Erie Chapman Foundation

  • Days 23-27 – Changing the Past

    Want to change your history? Our past is a library of books we wrote. Rewrite those books & you change your life. As the cartoon priest said, “Change comes from within.” Continue reading

  • Days 14-15 We Are The Ones

    Note: Reflection by Liz Sorensen Wessel The recent election has magnified a great chasm that seems to separate us one from another. Collectively as well as individually we bear witness to the best and the worst in ourselves. We live… Continue reading

  • Days 7-8 Threshold

    Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel   Sacred Mystery, waiting on the threshold  of this new year, you open the gates and beckon to me. "Come! Come! Be not fearful of what awaits you as you enter the unknown terrain,… Continue reading

  • Days 2-6 – What Do You See?

    If I share the circumstances of this photograph you may think, “I see” & move on. The artist’s dismay is that you miss whatever else a picture has to offer. Speed is not a part of meaningful encounters. Continue reading

  • Days 360-364 – Freedom

    How do we free ourselves from jails of our own creation? Jesus proved that no jail can imprison the hearts of those who love. We should celebrate his birth not just on December 25 but everyday. Continue reading

  • Days 358-359 Blessings of Christmas

    Note: This Christmas Greeting is from Liz Sorensen Wessel May the love that breathes life into all of humanity Be born in us this Christmas season. May the love that brings forth all of creation, Be born in us this… Continue reading

  • Days 351-352: She Shelters

    Note:  Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel  Advent Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke In the winter forest the wind drives the flock of snowflakes like a shepherd, And a fir tree senses how soon she will be blessed with candle-light, and… Continue reading

  • Days 344-345 “It Is What It Is and I am What I Am”

    Note: this reflection is offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel “It is what it is”… my late brother John would often say and when I am missing him most, I listen for these words from others as a sign of his… Continue reading

  • Days: 337-338 In This Season

    “The human heart continues to dream of a state of wholeness, a place where everything comes together, where loss will be made good, where blindness will transform into vision, where damage will be made whole, where the clenched question will… Continue reading

  • Days 330-331 Hope

    Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel     "Hope is a communal virtue. Now is the time to be community for each other  - to help carry burdens, to share, to offer hope, to trust, to love one another."  … Continue reading