Journal of Sacred Work

Erie Chapman Foundation

  • Days 67-71 – The Secret of Gratitude: Timeless Celebration

    In 1973 neurologist Oliver Sacks gave us a timeless gift (one of many.) He penned the book Awakenings. Seventeen years later it became an Academy Award nominated film. Patients frozen into silence & immobility are given a new drug. After… Continue reading

  • Days 65-66 For The Journey

    The Lenten season invites us on a soulful journey of self-introspection. We travel light without all the customary amenities that will only serve to distract us from our real purpose. Perhaps we have forgotten. Through the years, our heart becomes… Continue reading

  • Days 58-59 All Through this Day

    For many Christians the observance of Lent is a way of preparing the heart in celebration of the central mystery of Christianity; the death and resurrection of Jesus.  Whether or not you are Christian, or religious for that matter, we… Continue reading

  • Days 51-52 “Museao Atlantico”

    [NOTE: This post was written by Liz Wessel] Jason deCaires Taylor is creating a unique underwater museum that depicts the refugee crisis hitting Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The British artist creates a cast by covering human subjects with… Continue reading

  • Days 43-44 Love One Another

    John 4:7-8 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” I have heard… Continue reading

  • Days 30-31 A Magnum Opus

    What draws a man into an obsession or rather a love affair with sculpting underground cathedrals? To dig deep into the earth’s core and hollow out space for beauty’s sake. What a fascinating expedition on a deeply elemental level. To… Continue reading

  • Days 23-24 What to Do?

    The Community We Are Called To Be “To be a community that serves, that speaks, that celebrates and prays in such a way that others-regardless of their religious belief, encountering this community experience a revelation of life’s deepest truths…about human… Continue reading

  • Days 16-17 I Love You More

    Please note: This essay is dedicated in loving memory to Candi Maio. Vibrant, charismatic, lover of life and giver of joy; her name, Candida Maio but everyone knew her as Candi. She greeted this world on February 17, 1933 and… Continue reading

  • Days 9-10 Wise Owl Pays A Visit

    Winters chill invites solitude. Come in from the cold she beckons and cozy down with a good book in the quietude of evening with an imagined fire in the hearth to chase away the cold. A Friday night, Sabbath; all… Continue reading

  • Days 1-3 May I live this Day

      I arise today By John O'Donohue In the name of Silence Womb of the Word, In the name of Stillness Home of Belonging, In the name of the Solitude Of the Soul and the Earth.   I arise today… Continue reading