Journal of Sacred Work

4 responses to “Days 53-55 – Open Forum”

1. 

   Gail

   February 22, 2008

   Sharing something I read this morning – Based on Mark 14:6 “She has done a good work for Me”
   If what we call love doesn’t take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love. If we have the idea that love is characterized as cautious, wise, sensible, shrewd, and never taken to extremes, we have missed the true meaning. This may describe affection and it may bring us a warm feeling, but it is not a true and accurate description of love.
   Have you ever been driven to do something for God not because you felt that it was useful or your duty to do so, or that there was anything in it for you, but simply because you love Him? Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Im not referring to works which could be regarded as divine & miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things-things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him. (direct quote “My Utmost for his Highest” by Oswald Chambers).
   My words: Love we show for each other is surrendering to God and being of value to him – esp. the “difficult to love souls” that need love the most.
   I believe this is what Parrish is about and can see it happening everyday. What would it look like if everyone was committed? I can’t wait! Start right now,…. do a simple human thing for someone today.

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   Karen York

   February 22, 2008

   I offer a few lines lifted from David Whyte’s “The Winter of Listening”
   “What is precious/inside us does not/care to be known/by the mind/in ways that diminish/its presence.
   What we strive for/in perfection/is not what turns us/into the lit angel/we desire…”
   My heart moves me in ways my mind cannot comprehend. In fact when it tries and I let it, I lose my courage and am victim to fear.

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   liz Wessel RN, MS SJHS Home Health Network

   February 22, 2008

   Gail, I welcome your voice to the Journal and I very happy to receive the sharing of your heart. Karen’s sharing the intuitive lines of David Whyte’s poetry resonates. Thank you, Gail for making the light of your presence known to us!
   This morning I felt a little shadow of sadness drawing me inward, yet, my heart’s voice said, “Turn toward another and let Love’s light shine through you.” Simplicity of heart I carry today … little gestures and the meaning of a divine poem.

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   liz Wessel

   February 24, 2008

   I am thinking about my younger days, how my focus was more on self-interest, career, achievement, raising a family, building a life. I wonder if this is the way of youth. With great enthusiasm, we go out into the world to blaze a path, make a mark, and stake a claim in life. As I age, I find self-interest waning as my attention shifts to concern for others and I give more and more of myself away in Love. It seems a natural progression in this grand cycle of life. In old age, our bodies worn and tired; only Love remaining. Wonderings, for a rainy Sunday morning…
   I was in circle of Loving caregivers yesterday as we came together, for a brief moment in time, to respond to our hearts deepest longings for connection. Together, our voices energized these words of unity in this expansive, universal poem.
   I am
   the center
   I am
   the point
   from which each direction goes
   I am
   the seed
   from which time grows
   and flows around me
   In days that are without number
   a thousand suns surround me
   And I am the sun
   burning in the center
   I am
   my rays go out
   and penetrate the night
   I am
   a million jewels blazing
   in my solar sight
   I am the past and future joined
   set in eternal flight
   I am
   the morning and the evening
   In my eternal light
   I am
   And yet in me
   the silent mystery
   “Iam not”
   forever burns
   and I bow down
   A silent witness
   to what in me
   forever learns
   forever burns
   forever turns
   From the book “Mandala” by Jose and Miriam Arguelles
   Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of Love ~Rumi
   And I am grateful to those who came into a circle of Love to share their hearts’ with me.

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