Journal of Sacred Work

Liz sorensen Wessel

  • Days 40-41 Sacred Circle

    Mandala is the Sanskrit word for sacred circle, there is no beginning and no end, a universal symbol for God as an all-inclusive Love without distinction.  Representative of life, mandala symbolism has polarities or opposites. For example, night and day,… Continue reading

  • Days 33-34 Our Hidden Gift

    The hidden gift in caregiving Continue reading

  • Days 26-27 If Only for an Instant

    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi   We have a responsibility to ourselves and others to attend to the barriers… Continue reading

  • Days 19-20 “Above All, Trust”…

    “God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle – and my heart and thoughts.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Above all, trust in the slow work… Continue reading

  • Days 5-6 High Flight

      High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed… Continue reading

  • Days 362-365 Pearls Streaming

    And I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year; “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the… Continue reading

  • Dayss 357-358 Peace

      "Nature was a mirror of the soul for St. Francis of Assisi—a mirror for himself and a mirror for God. All this mirroring effected a complete change of consciousness, a shift in how he saw reality.The outer world began… Continue reading

  • Days 336-337 Countless Masks Falling

    I look out into a field of stark, leafless trees wrapped up in a ghostly fog of grey. Their dark limbs silhouette tributaries of black lace, entwined in a colorless sky. How bare and vulnerable without their protective garb, their… Continue reading

  • Days 329-330 Paraprosdokians

    "Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous. Winston Churchill loved them." ~Anon   Here are a few paraprosdokians from a distinguished cat named Esmae who dreams… Continue reading

  • Days 322-323 Back Home

    Recently, my son John and I had an opportunity to go visit my mom in Vermont. Nearing her 97th year, mom's hearing has diminished to the point of near deafness, which makes quality conversations more difficult, but not impossible. However,… Continue reading