Journal of Sacred Work

Love

  • Day 157 – Gifts of Hope and Faith

    Are there hopes and dreams alive in you for the difference Love can make in your work, in this world? I admit to days of discouragement and sometimes a readiness to walk away – frankly at times I think it’d… Continue reading

  • Day 150 – Mindful Again

    Mindfulness is love that resists distraction (italics added). It is a staunch refusal to fall into absentmindedness. It is focused, sustained attention toward the beloved. Continue reading

  • Day 143 – The Power of One

    Words carry great power, as we’ve been sharing this week in this pages; perhaps that power is felt most of all when we use simple, one-syllable words. With our words we can create harm and hurt, or help and hope.… Continue reading

  • Day 141 – Compassionate Communication :-)

    Compassionate communication is a core element in the practice of Radical Loving Care. How do we want to be heard? How are we doing hearing others? The answers to these quesitons are part of the practice of Living Love. Continue reading

  • Day 136 – Love’s Laughter

    Even in seeking to love, I have taken wrong turns, misstepped with my words, worried too much. The weight of worry is heavy. Continue reading

  • Day 129 – The Weight of Love

    I cannot do it all, but what I am able to do, as Mother Teresa once said, I can do with great love. My greatest act today may be to listen fully and deeply to the heart and need of… Continue reading

  • Days 126-127 – Exuberance!

    Love has no interest in or need for human boundaries. She follows her own path. Love will naturally avoid senseless violence and find righteous expression where justice has failed. She may often call caregivers to break a rule here and… Continue reading

  • Day 122 – Authentic Living

    Each human person is unique and original, and nobody has lived what we have lived. Furthermore, what we have lived, we have lived not just for ourselves but for others as well. Writing can be a very creative and invigorating… Continue reading

  • Day 120 – Renita’s Faith

    The example of the Samaritan calls to all of us. Continue reading

  • Days 105 & 106 – Watching God

    Yes, we need to perform the rites of everyday life. We also need to surpass those rites of man-made rules when we live Love. We all hear the beat of true life, thumping in the background of the world with… Continue reading