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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  • In the most serene rooms of your heart your soul whispers secrets to you alone. What are the hidden conversations between your soul & body? Our cells replace themselves every seven to ten years. What about the cells of your soul?

  • Note: shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel     "Hope is a communal virtue. Now is the time to be community for each other  - to help carry burdens, to share, to offer hope, to trust, to love one another."                                …

  • The umbilical cord had just been cut. Suddenly separated from his mother my grandson reached for help. Almost every baby does it. Soon enough – usually sooner than we would like, we are taught to quit that. To stand on our own. We do that. But the hope for help often returns.

  • Do you ever feel that you are not up to the task? Often I am at a loss for what I might journal here, so I tend to choose something in the midst of my experience… meaningful in the present. At times, I am on empty and I wonder where any creative energy or inspiration…

  • Work at any job for ten, twenty or thirty years & it becomes hard to see the elegance around us. When we find it our days breathe meaning. The world harbors dark pain. The world offers startling folds of grace.

  • "Let sorrow be the door to an open heart."  Jennifer Berezen Some of us grieve, others rejoice. Through what lens do you look upon our world? Through a lens of separateness and fear or through the lens of love? I suspect for most of us see through the lens of both shadow and light. Yet,…

  • We condemn sound bites…& we live by them. Consider Beth Ritter-Conn’s ten word phrase, “…healing has to begin where hurt has been the greatest.” Then there are the Apostle John’s three words that changed the world: “God is love.”

  • Note from Liz Wessel: This reflection is dedicated to my colleagues who I have had the privilege to serve alongside; with gratitude for the love you have woven into the hearts and souls of the many lives you have touched. Thank you for helping to build a strong foundation and a lasting legacy at our ministry.  …

  • Note: This reflection is offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel to celebrate Erie Chapman; a man with a brilliant mind, sensitive heart & creative spirit. What better way to honor the Beauty of his soul than to share a few of Erie’s own thoughts and words. "Some of our most beautiful secrets are unknown even to…

  • Note: This reflection is offered by Liz Sorensen Wessel Metaphors enable us to express divine ineffable truths. The mystery of the Holy Trinity is a Christian understanding of God. One that invites us into a relational experience of love.  Richard Rohr describes God as “a circle dance; a total outpouring and receiving among three intimate…