Journal of Sacred Work

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  • Days 18-22 How Art Trains Caregivers

    While FaceTiming with my daughter she demonstrated how modern day portrait photography is lifted to fine art when the photographer has trained their eye so well that they create as artists.   She made this image of me with a… Continue reading

  • Days 361-365 Last Words

     Caregivers, particularly in hospices, are often witnesses to final utterances. One doctor offers his mother’s memorable last words. Continue reading

  • Days 286-290 – Mirrors & Windows

    Behind every hospital window dwells a patient cut off from health & home. The mirror tells them what we must always remember: they are more than a diagnosis. If we look with love through the windows of our eyes into the… Continue reading

  • Days 357-361 – Secrets in Fog

       The Queen of Morning offers a gracious gift whenever she layers a meadow with the mist we call fog. On the morning I made part one of this picture (top) she had spread her grayest robes across a golf… Continue reading

  • Days 336-340 – How Storypower Made Illness a Gift

    After essayist Anatole Broyard learned he was terminally ill he made a transcendent choice: To change his life story. “All of my old trivial selves fell away and I was reduced to my essence,” he wrote. Thus, he took control… Continue reading

  • Days 153-157 – Are We Awake?

    George MacDonald (b.1824) warned, “We must wake our souls unnumbered times a day.” The key word is “souls.” Our soul can tell us how to spend our time. Mine tells me to create. Each day Love hands me what the camera… Continue reading

  • Days 213-217 – Portals to Paradise?

    The world we occupy is one we will soon leave. Meanwhile, I fancy finding secret doors here & there, walking through them & experiencing briefly what paradise offers eternally.  Continue reading

  • Days 9-13 – The Marriage of Love & Need

    This sacred encounter awakens every experience of our personal participation in the marriage of love & need. And it is the body language of these people that most nurtures our sense of the majesty & grace of caregiving. Continue reading