Journal of Sacred Work

illness

  • Days 232-236 – What Caregivers Carry

    When we are well we can feel bullet proof. From the height of our health, we may even condescend to the ill. When you are sick illness looks endless. In the depths of your agony, health is a distant star. Continue reading

  • Days 117-118 – Loving The Vulnerable

    “Our primary model of Love flows first from our mothers. When we speak of the “Mother Test” in Radical Loving Care, we address not only the treatment level we want for our mothers when they are hospitalized, but the care… Continue reading

  • Day 169 – Sitting With Illness

    Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snow field where even the print of birds’ feel is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it… Continue reading