Journal of Sacred Work

Radical Loving Care

  • Days 186-187 Beloved

    “And did you get what/you wanted from this life, even so?/ I did/ And what did you want?/to call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” -Raymond Carver   A prayer by "Ann" called, “The Holiness that Pervades… Continue reading

  • Days 165-166 When Everything Else is Gone . . . Love Just Is

    Note: Special thanks to guest contributor Cheri Cancelliere     C. S. Lewis observed that if you ask 20 good people to name the highest virtue, 19 of them will say “unselfishness.” Yet, he felt quite certain that if the same question… Continue reading

  • Days 158-159 The Conversation Project

    “Everyone has got to die, but I always thought an exception would be made in my case." Author, William Saroyan, on his deathbed.  The majority of us are not comfortable having conversations about the prospect of end of life. Why… Continue reading

  • Days 153-155 – “Intimacy that does not annihilate difference…”

    “True intimacy between you and another honors both deep sharing and an exquisite appreciation of the membrane that separates you from the other.” – Erie Chapman Continue reading

  • Days 151-152 The Greatest Gift

    Morning holds a special dignity of her own. Awakening in the quiet sanctity of her arms, listen as life begins to stir. In his book, “Eternal Echoes” John O’Donouhue encourages us to greet each day in the ancient tradition of… Continue reading

  • Days 138-139 In Loving This Day

    Within light there is darkness, But do not try to understand that darkness. Within darkness there is light, But do not look for that light. Light and darkness are a pair, Like the foot before and the foot behind in… Continue reading

  • Days 131-132 Abundance

    Note:  Special thanks to artist, Marie Benzing, CSJ for her beautiful watercolor, "Abundance". This reflection is compliments of Ministry of the Arts.   "There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining for giving which seeks no reward;… Continue reading

  • Days 124-125 A Warm and Tender Hand

    National Nurses Week begins on May 6, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. As this week unfolds I hope you will think about some of the Florence’s you may  know, the unsung heroes that we work alongside with day in and day out.… Continue reading

  • Days 110-111 The Door of Possibilities

    The Door of Possibilities – Commentary for the Journal by Maria Doglio  Sometimes, when we get knocked off our path by others, we lose sight of profound moments of synchronicity that once gave you clarity and direction.   Such was my… Continue reading

  • Days 101-102 – Love in THIS Moment

    “We can always do more tomorrow. But, what can how can we live Love right now?” – Erie Chapman Continue reading