Journal of Sacred Work

7 responses to “Days 332-334 – Thanksgiving & Open Forum”

1. 

   ~liz Wessel

   November 27, 2008

   Quiet mornings; solitary voice of a songbird
   My dog greeting me exuberantly, every time
   A hot cup of coffee
   Holiday pajama days watching old black and white movies
   Jimmy Stewart in “Harvey”
   How my friend held my face and said, “Please don’t go”
   Entering another world within a book
   What meditation and prayer awakens in me
   Watching “Young Frankenstein” and laughing when I’m sad
   A kind gesture between strangers, becoming instant friends
   Love’s intimacies, spontaneous joy, expressing, sharing, Being Love, unending
   Wessel family gatherings, making horseradish
   Sweetness of an apology when my son has been grumpy
   Lee and his family coming home for Christmas
   That I was born into the Sorensen family
   Family vacations in New Hampshire and by the ocean
   Growing up in a neighborhood as one of the “Sorensen kids”
   Every moment shared with Johnny
   Of willingness to receive Love and accept forgiveness
   Knowing you
   How time suspended yesterday, opening a portal into a long conversation with my brother Tommy
   Your beautiful heart
   That Love is the answer to every question

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2. 

   Julia Claire Wessel

   November 27, 2008

   The trials of life that taught me understanding and the knowledge that my children will never understand me ~ Building a beautiful life with a beautiful man ~ Each of the children I have borne or borrowed ~ Every loving exchange ~ Being happy ~ Having hope ~ Laughing til I cry ~ Blooming where planted ~ Dancing with my kids ~ A successful plan ~ South Dakota ~ Exploring ~ Singing when I’m alone ~ Remembering to pray when angry ~ Being able to move through fear ~ Twinkies and Cherry 7up

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3. 

   Claudia Pedler

   November 27, 2008

   The joys of times gone by and all those who no longer grace the table but left such lasting impressions and love.
   Pink apple pies (because my dad used cinnamon candies and so do I!)
   All the struggles that make the joys of this time so sweet.
   Hymns that taught me so much about God and my journey home.
   A special bouquet of fresh flowers ‘just because’ from my husband of 49+ years.
   Good reports after a scary year of recurrent cancer, chemotherapy and surgery.
   Listening to the rain fall and the birds sing.
   Each morning when I awake and say “Thank you!”

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4. 

   ~liz Wessel

   November 28, 2008

   Day 333:
   Around Us by ~Marvin Bell
   We need some pines to assuage the darkness
   when it blankets the mind,
   we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly
   as a plane’s wing, and a worn bed of
   needles to pad the rumble that fills the mind,
   and a blur or two of a wild thing
   that sees and is not seen. We need these things
   between appointments, after work,
   and, if we keep them, then someone someday,
   lying down after a walk
   and supper, with the fire hole wet down,
   the whole night sky set at a particular
   time, without numbers or hours, will cause
   a little sound of thanks–a zipper or a snap–
   to close round the moment and the thought
   of whatever good we did.

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5. 

   ~liz Wessel

   November 29, 2008

   Day 334:
   Thanksgiving Reflections by St. Thérèse Couderc – 1865
   I had a few days ago, an insight which consoled me very much.
   It was during my thanksgiving, when I make a few reflections upon the goodness of God, and how should one not think of this at such a time, of that infinite goodness, uncreated goodness, the source of all goodness. …
   I saw written as in letters of gold this word “Goodness”
   which I repeated for a long time with indescribable sweetness.
   I beheld it, I say, written upon all creatures, animate and inanimate, rational or not, all bore this name goodness. …
   I understood then that all these creatures have of goodness and all the services and assistance that we receive from each of them is a benefit, which we owe to the goodness of God who has communicated to them something of his infinite goodness so that we may meet it in everything and everywhere.

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6. 

   ~liz Wessel

   November 30, 2008

   I received this little message tucked into a Thanksgiving card this year and I thought I would share the message with you.
   Thankfulness
   “Let us rise up and be thankful, for even if we didn’t learn a lot today, a least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ~Buddha
   “I will start and end today thinking about how fortunate I am, right here, right now.”

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7. 

   Maureen McDermott

   December 2, 2008

   Thanksgiving for memory – what a treasure we store within ourselves, memory of people who have touched our lives, seeing their faces stirs joy within. Memory brings so much to life – especially beauty – oh what is stored there. So often I can visit my treasures of memory and a wonderful world opens for me – the memory not only revives but enables me to rejoice once again in the graced experience with which I have been gifted. I am especially grateful for this amazing technolgy that enables me to connect with so many people in different parts of the world.

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