Liz Wessel
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Days 237-239 – The Caregiver’s Harvest
Every person who loves another is a caregiver. The time we spend doing that is never wasted. Continue reading
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Days 221-222 A Love That Knows No Bounds
A miraculous friendship between a crow and a kitten. Continue reading
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Days 118-120 Caregiving & the Role of Art
Great art is always an expression of Love….It requires training, skill and sensitivity to appreciate art as well as create it. The same is true of caregiving. Continue reading
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Day 100-101 Loving the Questions
“A Sacred Encounter: when need has been heard and is answered with Love.” ~ Rev. Erie Chapman One of the gifts I have received by keeping company with this Journal is the exploration of thought provoking questions posed by Erie.… Continue reading
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Days 79-80 For Everything, Which Is, Yes
“…For Everything/ Which Is Natural / Which Is Infinite/ Which Is Yes…” ~e.e.cummings Resistance…translates into no, a “no” to life. I think of the many ways we can resist life; avoid, push away, protect, defend, attack, fear intimacy. Tension… Continue reading
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Days 72-73 The Art of Conversation
[The following post was written by regular weekend contributor Liz Wessel, R.N., M.S., Mission Director, Saint Joseph Home Health Network, Orange, California. The photo at left is by Roger Katz.] Conversations,“Like we say at home they are food and drink… Continue reading
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Days 51-52 A Pilgrimage of the Heart
“Too late have I loved you, O Beauty so ancient and new, too late have I loved you! Behold, you were within me while I was outside; it was there that I sought you, and rushed headlong upon these… Continue reading
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Days 44-45 – Life’s Inconveniences
"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one’s "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life." ~C.S. Lewis “When… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 