Journal of Sacred Work
Caregivers have superpowers! Radical Loving Care illuminates the divine truth that caregiving is not just a job. It is Sacred Work.
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Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Enter the Struggle …we are challenged to pour ourselves into the human endeavor… Knowing full well that it is the struggles and how we are with others that matters. Success is left to God, held lightly…
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“The heart is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” Rumi wrote. The 13th century Persian mystic wrote glorious poetry & not a verse of it is out of date. We want our hearts to be dwelling places for Love. Yet, the hardest people to touch with out love can sometimes be those closest to us.
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Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Nature is our greatest teacher. She has so much wisdom to reveal about the mysteries of life and of death, of ending and beginnings. The wonders of Mother Earth reflect answers to the questions we carry in the secret chambers of our heart. I love how beauty manifests…
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They gaze at each other, sunlit beings linked by blood, separated in age by three years & one month, joined forever in the love of sister & brother. Two-week-old Reed Chapman owns that baby’s ability to stare unselfconsciously because he is not conscious of his selfhood. What if adults practiced what Reed does naturally? The eyes…
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Note: Reflection offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Blessing When the World is Ending Look, the worldis always endingsomewhere. Somewherethe sun has comecrashing down. Somewhereit has gonecompletely dark. Somewhereit has endedwith the gun,the knife,the fist. Somewhereit has endedwith the slammed door,the shattered hope. Somewhereit has endedwith the utter quietthat follows the newsfrom the phone,the television,the hospital…
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“We dream – it is good we are dreaming -/ It would hurt us were we awake…” Does Dickinson’s quote reflect how you feel? Was Plato right when he wrote that “All of life is a dream?”
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“That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.” Frances Hodgson Burnett Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel At P.S. 68 elementary in the Bronx, New York the bookmobile came to our school on Wednesday afternoons. Oh the delight in getting to peruse the…
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Shared by Liz Wessel “The International Day of Peace is a day on which we try to imagine a world quite different from the one we know. We try to picture those who wage war laying down their arms and talking out their differences. We try to picture all governments listening to — and acting…
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“Perhaps, it is when we unite work & play that we do our best caregiving – for each other as well as for the patient before us.”
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Note: Reflection shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel By Breath By breath, by blood, by body, by spirit, we are all one The air that is my breath is the air that you are breathing And the air that is your breath is the air that I am breathing The wind rising in my breast is…
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