Journal of Sacred Work

Radical Loving Care

  • Days 13-17 – One Who Raised The Light

    Marcy Alton had a presence that lit-up hearts. When you enter a room does the “light” go up or down? Do others feel pleased or afraid? Confident or unsure? Loving or fearful?  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 350-354 – Witness to Tears

    Caregivers are tear-catchers as well as wound-menders.  Day & night they bear witness to suffering, often hiding their own tears so that they may help others. Continue reading

  • Days 301-305 – Autumn Sun?

    Anais Nin wrote, “We do not see things as they are./We see them as we are.” Why do you & I see the identical picture in different ways & thus experience different feelings? Continue reading

  • Days 287-291 – Angels or Ghosts?

    By reimagining our life stories we can disarm Fear. Bullies that terrorized & betrayers who disappointed can become the scared beings who found no other way to act. New stories can light our way across Fear’s bridge to Love’s lake, home… Continue reading

  • Days 203-207 – NEW MESSIAH?

    Do we need a new Messiah, the Daughter of God? That is the question I will pose in a one person art exhibit this September at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Art Gallery. What gender, race & message? What do you think? Continue reading

  • Days 160-164 – City of God, City of Man

     Every life is fraught with longing.Truth, the home of wrinkled skin & revealed secrets. Compassion, nursing the starving at her breasts. Love, finally freeing the artist’s hand & liberating arias from the poet’s heart. Only these three swim us close… 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 134-138 Saint Liz

     Patients soothed in the middle of crises may never know the impact Liz has had on their lives. They will not even know that she has been sainted. But, you will. Continue reading

  • Days 118-122 – Anne Boyer Describes Why What You Do Matters Most

    Radical Loving Care’s hymnal holds two songs. One thrills with notes of celebration. The other is limned with lyrics of longing. You know both songs by heart. Listen to Ms. Boyer’s version & you will hear them anew. Continue reading