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 by Liz Sorensen Wessel Perhaps we let a cherished friend or loved one down by something we said or did or failed to say or do. The endearing image that was held of us comes crashing down in a tidal wave of disappointment. The illusionary curtain has fallen, our weaknesses and vulnerabilities exposed, stemming…

  • Balance is the question. Her life is the answer. It is not that she has lived so long but how she has lived & who & what she has chosen to love.

  • “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”  ~St. Francis of Assisi As the week draws to an end, let us pray for peace and for those who are committed to sowing violence, that God will touch their hearts and soften their resolve so they will not carry out…

  • In December I thought I would try to film myself searching for peace – Peace Fishing. This 30 second video shows how hard it can be to catch a peace fish.

  • “For Franciscan theologian and philosopher Bonaventure (1217-1274), the perfection of God and God's creation is quite simply a full circle, and to be perfect, the circle must and will complete itself. He knows that Alpha and Omega are finally the same, and the lynch pin holding it all in unity is the "Christ Mystery," or…

  • When my cousin, Dr. Terry Chapman, steps waist deep into a cold New England stream to live his love of trout fishing he becomes a living metaphor for the spiritual immersion every loving caregiver must engage every day.

  • America symbolizes freedom even to those who attack it out of fear & ignorance. Dictatorships & terrorists hate free countries because they want dominance not democracy. Because they want to force-feed the values of a few rather than to allow the viewpoints of the many.

  • “The surest way for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.” Who appeals to our highest & best self? Donald Trump’s success fuels every bullying boss in America. His message to leaders is that you win using intimidation, deceit (Trump University), slight of hand & other tricks used every day by con-men.…

  •     Note:  Shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel   Love   is the bridge   between   you   and   everything                              -Rumi Photo – high school to life long friends- Brattleboro, Vermont

  • “If Donald Trump wins we should shut down the churches,” a Presbyterian minister said in his sermon this past Sunday, “because a Trump victory would show we have failed at teaching Christian principles.”