Journal of Sacred Work

Liz sorensen Wessel

  • Days 105-106 What If ?

    “We crave truth tellers. We crave real truth. There is so much boloney all the time. What matters is an under girding truth that I think is the power of poetry.” ~Elizabeth Alexander  What is our truth? Our story, yet… Continue reading

  • Days 98-99 God is Painting

    After all, "Who doesn't like poems." ~Ms. Emily Irby    Photo by Frank Kee, Tehachapi, CA 3/20o5 Amid the chaos and the noise, spring blossoms in fragrant remembrance, awakens new life, sings with heart. Daylight lingers hoping we might take… Continue reading

  • Day 84-85 One Hundred Thousand Welcomes

    “The essence of our lives is how we receive the stranger at the threshold … who is about to become a friend… and it is going to change you.”~Noirin Ni Riain  On a recent sojourn, I discovered the charm of… Continue reading

  • Days 77-78 In the Shelter of Each Other

     "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." Irish Proverb My grandmother, Catherine Carter, left her homeland of Ireland at the young age of seventeen. She set sail for America seeking adventure with a burning desire… Continue reading

  • Days 71-72 Presents

    Presents I give you an emptiness I give you a plentitude unwrap them carefully. -one's as fragile as the other- and when you thank me I'll pretend not to notice the doubt in your voice when you say theyr'e just… Continue reading

  • Days 57-58 THE RIDDLE OF HERE | WORDS by Nic Askew

    Photo by ~liz: Dawn in the town of Flores, the Peten Guatemala, Feb. 2011 We're looking. For something so simple. So simple, that we can't hold it inour hands. Or in our heads. So we look to him. To her.To… Continue reading

  • Days 50-51 How do I Greet This Day?

    As some of you may be aware, my colleagues and I recently went on a pilgrimage to Guatemala. Each morning when we met for breakfast,  someone would read a passage from Genesis 1. Then before  setting off for the day… Continue reading

  • Days 36-37 The Compass of Your Soul

    Photo compliments pf : www.panhala.net/Archive/Index.html  For the Traveler   Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into a world you were never in.   New strangers on other paths await. New places that have never seen you Will… Continue reading

  • Days 29-30 Be Brave My Love

    "Sometimes we try to hold on to things that God himself is trying to tear apart."  (shared by Xavier Espinosa)  Rest in God, Mandala by ~liz  Rev. Erie Chapman recently highlighted this quote by, W.A. Mathieu, "I think we basically… Continue reading

  • Day 15-16 Inner Landscape

    “Our bodies are mere outlines of a vast and complex interior world, a landscape of contradiction and immense mystery.”~ Krista Tippett   Recently,  a friend  shared John Cage's mesmerizing piano piece ''In a landscape''. It reminded me of John O'Donohue’s… Continue reading