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Previous Newsletters
Winter Newsletter – January 2024
Words of Wisdom … for the Journey A New Year …..Turn the page. Open the door. A fresh start.What will unfold? The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake. Thomas Merton Ten times a day something happens to me like this — some strengthening throb of amazement — some good…
October 2023 Newsletter
Brokenness, Pain, Healing, Wholeness We’ve been through a lot in the last few years — losing people to Covid, losing friends/churches/community to disaffiliation, etc. There is still much pain — in our hearts and in the people with whom we are in contact. How do we move toward healing and wholeness — toward the salvation…
July 2023 Newsletter
Summer 2023 Newsletter The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.Thomas Merton Communion in the Ignatius House…
April 2023 Newsletter
A Resurrection Moment So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! 2 Corinthians 5:17 NRSVUE Reflect on ~ what it mean/feels like to be a new creation. how I am “in Christ” – and how that informs my living and…
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Members are invited to submit essays, articles and book reviews to the editor of the national newsletter. These submissions are limited to a 400-word maximum, and should serve to further the goals and ministry of Hearts on Fire, which are to support and inform the ministries of United Methodist spiritual directors and retreat leaders. Submissions are published at the discretion of the editors. Please submit your work as an attached Word Document in Times New Roman 12 pt font by the last day of each month by sending an email to Glynden Bode at [email protected].