Journal of Sacred Work

Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Days 40-41 Widening Circles

        I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.  I may not complete this last one but I will give myself to it.     I circle around God, around the primordial tower. I’ve… Continue reading

  • Days 20-21 Hope

    Oh, not to be separated, shut off from the starry dimensions by so thin a wall. What is within us if not intensified sky traversed with birds and deep with winds of homecoming? ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Uncollected Poems A great… Continue reading

  • Days 351-352: She Shelters

    Note:  Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel  Advent Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke In the winter forest the wind drives the flock of snowflakes like a shepherd, And a fir tree senses how soon she will be blessed with candle-light, and… Continue reading

  • Days 301- 302 Autumn

     Note: Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel Autumn The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no." And tonight the heavy earth is… Continue reading

  • Days 242-243: Holy Time

    Resting in the Sabbath, in the Loving arms of God. Continue reading

  • Days 91-92 Follow that Road

    (Part III in a Series on Hospitality; Hospitality for Ourselves) Where is that road that leads us back home, back in time to the days of ease? I long to find it, yet, too often my feelings, like unwanted guests… Continue reading

  • Days 340-342 – Circling

    Perhaps, we are simply God’s Love. We travel the earth for awhile, searching and swirling. Sometimes we sing to the suffering. Sometimes we suffer ourselves – all the while “circling around God, the ancient tower.” Continue reading

  • 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

  • Day 213 – Living Our Way Into The Answer

    The questions in our lives may create anxiety and fear, even though truth itself lies just beneath our fear. Seeing and hearing that truth comes when we are willing to “live the questions now” as Rilke so beautifully writes. Living… Continue reading