Journal of Sacred Work

Liz sorensen Wessel

  • Days 312-313 (In)significance: Not Everyone Knows My Name

     "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."–Mahatma Gandhi  I was just a child when I first realized that someday I would die. I could not fathom how the world could possibly go… Continue reading

  • Days 291-292 She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms By ~Emily Dickinson

                                                                                                                                                                  Watercolor by ~liz    She Sweeps with Many Colored Brooms    SHE sweeps with many-colored brooms, And leaves the shreds behind; Oh, housewife in the evening west, Come back, and dust the pond! You dropped a purple ravelling… Continue reading

  • Days 270-271 Need Some Inspiration?

      “All arts are derived from the breath that God breathed into the human body.”                          ~Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century mystic                                                          … Continue reading

  • Days 249-250 We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

    Mandala by ~liz This past week Erie has encouraged us to face our fears and to choose instead to live God's Love. Our present experience in health care is one of tremendous change. We are called to do more with… Continue reading

  • Days 235-236 A Ship in Safe Harbor

    Embracing change Continue reading

  • Days 214 – 215 The Wounded Healer

                                           Polyprint Watercolor, ~liz Wessel  In Henri Nouwen’s book, The Wounded Healer he suggests that to communicate with another we need hold back and allow space. He shared these wonderful insights of counselor James Hillman. “This withdrawal, rather than going-out-to… Continue reading

  • Days 207-208 When We Finally See

    "When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things … Atticus, he was real nice," to which he responded, "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."   The above quote is the last line in… Continue reading

  • Days 200-201 What Does It Really Mean To Be Kind?

                                                                                                 Watercolor Polyprint ~liz Wessel Kindness by ~Naomi Shihab Nye Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand,… Continue reading

  • Days 179-180 For Love Knows Us

                                                                                                                                                                 Mandala: (colored pencils) by ~liz In the Mind of God     We catch intimate glimpses of shadows and light Your radiance… Continue reading

  • Days 172-173 Astonishing Realization

    “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven… Continue reading