Journal of Sacred Work

Erie Chapman

  • Days 219-220 Our Works

    “The single most important thing a leader does is to take care of the people who take care of people – to serve those who serve.”  -Erie Chapman Artwork by Liz Wessel Our Works Everyone who seeks meaning in their… Continue reading

  • Days 149-150 Slingshots to Nuclear War?

    Too many soldiers from all countries gave their lives since human beings picked up stones and slingshots, then catapults and now nuclear war is in mankind's quiver of suffering and death! God watches our inadequate use of free will and… Continue reading

  • Days 95-99 – A Near-Death Experience

    As my body moves from near-death to actual, that childhood experience looms. Click on the link for a meditation created to suggest those moments & bring you peace.(1946 footage of dad & me by my mother.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIHcNufeLI Continue reading

  • Days 65-66 Seedlings

    If any of the short sentences that follow appeals to you, place it in your heart and ponder on its inner meaning. This will cause its inner truth to germinate and grow… Seedlings by Anthony De Mello Do not force it… Continue reading

  • Days 60-64 “Love After Love”

    How can there be Love AFTER Love? Derek Wolcott answers that brilliantly. In so doing, he gives us a gift beyond measure.  Continue reading

  • Days 21-24 – Being The Light

    Ritual must ring true. Otherwise, hallowed turns too shallow. When leaders rise to the occasion they find (or inspire others to find) words that guide as well as inspire. Twenty-two-year old poet laureate Amanda Gordon dazzled our nation at the… Continue reading

  • Days 4-8 – A Red Wheelbarrow & A Wind Poem Meditation

     One day this past summer I noticed effect the wind was having on the Mexican field grass in my neighbor’s yard, walked over, filmed it &, with Dr. Williams whispering in my heart, made both a still picture & a… Continue reading

  • Days 305-306 Harnessing the Energies of Love

      "Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with and what seizes your imagination will affect everything. It will decide what will get… Continue reading

  • Days 286-290 – Mirrors & Windows

    Behind every hospital window dwells a patient cut off from health & home. The mirror tells them what we must always remember: they are more than a diagnosis. If we look with love through the windows of our eyes into the… Continue reading

  • Days 224-227 – Ancestral Gifts

    Mary Lees Davis was my maternal great grandmother & mother of Ellen Murbach. What childhood memories of relatives are tucked in the attic of your memory? Which of your ancestors were caregivers?  Continue reading