Journal of Sacred Work

Journal of Sacred Work

  • Days 92-93 Hope

       What gives you hope?   Is it the dawning of a new day or the twilight of stars first twinklings?   A stranger's smile as you glimpse each other's soul in passing or quiet moments of solitude?   What… Continue reading

  • Days 84-85 Sometimes

    Note: David Whyte's poetry, shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel l Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to… Continue reading

  • Days 77-78 Infinitely More

    Note: offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust We are immediately disarmed by Finley’s charm and humorous recounting of his mansion metaphor. It feels… Continue reading

  • Days 70-71 One Heart

    Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel “For you must realize that earth unfolds its properties and powers in union with Heaven aloft above us, and there is one Heart, one Being, one Will, one God, all in all.” -German mystic,… Continue reading

  • Days 63-64 Let Every Ordinary

    Note:shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel: The Lenten season is observed by many Christians as a time of fasting and abstinence.  I used to give  something up for Lent as a symbol of my willingness to atone. However, in this latter part… Continue reading

  • Days 55-56 The Descent Home

    Note: Shared by Liz Wessel This is a beautiful dream offered by James Finley (via Richard Rohr, The Center for Action and Contemplation)  Imagine that you have a dream in which you are climbing a high mountain. The valley below… Continue reading

  • Days 35-36 The Beauty of Your Soul

    Shared by Liz Wessel: "FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness.” “Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for… Continue reading

  • Days 28-29 “The One Who Dreamed the Universe”

    Note: shared by Liz Wessel;  an excerpt from "Eternal Echoes" by John O’Donohue. “The one who dreamed the universe loved circles. There is some strange way in which everything that goes forward is somehow still travelling within the embrace of… 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 365 -1 “Light through a Gap”

    Note: Written by Liz Sorensen Wessel Light through a Gap Light comes through a gap in the curtains:The promise of morning.Light comes through the flaws of our lives:The promise of love. ~ -Modern Prayer from Berlin, Germany We humans are… Continue reading