Words of Wisdom
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Recalibration LIVE!
November 12, 2022 (Saturday)
Sacred Conversation: Exploring the Gifts of Awakening, Meditation, and Belonging in Spiritual Direction with Marsha Crockett
1 – 3 pm Eastern
12 noon – 2 pm Central
11 am – 1 pm Mountain
10 am – 12 noon Pacific
For more information, click here. To register, click here.
January 21, 2023 (Saturday)
This will be a zoom gathering on the Enneagram – and what we gain from our security and stress movements, with Jenny Misslin (trained with Suzanne Stabile). More information and registration will be coming soon.
This will be a 2 1/2 hour event, 1 – 3:30 pm Eastern.
Unfortunately, the zoom with Jane Vennard on White Supremacy and the Experience of White Privilege: An Interior Journey was canceled due to Jane’s injury, and we hope to reschedule her for March or May.
More online events are being planned, so stay tuned!
Save the Date!
Retreat at
Ignatius House Jesuit Retreat Center
Atlanta, Georgia
July 17 – 20, 2023
Retreat Leader: Rev. Dan Wolpert
Registration will open early in 2023. Watch for more information coming soon.
Membership in Hearts On Fire
- Please join. This group is open to all interested in spiritual formation/spiritual direction/retreat leadership, regardless of denominational affiliation.
- Enrichment/educational/networking/community zooms are being held at intervals throughout the year, and will continue into 2023.
- Retreat in 2023 – in person! (Members receive a discount on registration.)
- Additional resources including: daily prayer, book reviews, etc.
Click here for the membership page on our website. you will have the option to complete your member profile and pay online, or print a form and mail a check.
Online Course
Good Troublemaking: The Spiritual Practice of Building Better Worlds:
A Space for Spiritual Reflection and Renewal
October 27 – December 8
Thursdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm (Central)
with Rev. Eddie L. Journey, Ph.D., LMHC
Look around you. What do you see?
Now ask yourself, “Is this how things should be? Finally, consider, “How might I help close the gap between these two worlds?”
This 6-week online course seeks to offer activist-learners and learning activists a space for spiritual reflection and renewal. One of the most transformative powers of spiritual reflection is glimpse into futures where something more just is possible. Learners in this course will engage in faith-full vision casting using methods of practical theology in conversation with tenets of social justice action.
Come dream with us and leave ready to build a better tomorrow by faith-fully living today!
This opportunity is being offered by our partner, Rueben P. Job Institute for Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
Click here for full details and registration information.
Approaching the Holiday Season….
As we move rapidly toward the holidays, our thoughts often turn to those for whom these are not necessarily happy times. Many are experiencing losses – and suffering the lack of loved ones who are usually sharing the days with them. We can experience many kinds of loss through our lives, and Kevin Kling shares his own experiences with loss in this conversation from On Being with Krista Tippett. Click here to listen to “The Losses We Grow Into.”
Something contemplative, peaceful, lovely, beautiful, for your listening pleasure.
Joshua Bell plays “Ave Maria.”
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Question before many of us right now: How is the “great UMC divorce” going? How are you feeling? How are you coping with it all?
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