Journal of Sacred Work

"…somewhere inside us, the child is still running enthusiastically toward a horizon it once glimpsed. Our future depends on finding this original directional movement in our lives…It calls for a reinvestigation of the way we physically inhabit the world." – David Whyte – Crossing the Unknown Sea

   As a child, what horizon did you glimpse? When did you first imagine yourself as a caregiver? In our adulthood, there is always the threat that our brightest life hopes will grow dim. It takes great persistence to hold fast to dreams. And it takes energy and courage to choose to renew the best of our dreams as we live through our one lifetime.
   In his gorgeous poem, "Intimations of Immortality," Wordsworth wrote: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:/the Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,…"
   What do you yet hope for in your life as a caregiver?

-Erie Chapman