Tag Archives: camping

Home Again

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Esther Hizsa

I love our camping adventures–being outsideexploring by bikehiking trails to a viewsipping wine from a jarwatching flames turn to coalsmusing about what we forgotand how we made docozy and warm in our tentgrateful for tarps and when the rain comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Creation, Poetry, Reflections | Tagged Baldy Mountain Sorrento, Braiding Sweetgrass, camping, Esther Hizsa, Mary Oliver, Panthercap, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Shuswap Lake Provincial Park, Sometimes, spiritual director Burnaby, spiritual director Vancouver | Leave a comment

Held

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Esther Hizsa

This picture called to me from the table covered with photos at a silent retreat earlier this year. I wasn’t sure why until I sat with it in prayer. What stood out for me at first was the bronze colour. It … Continue reading →

Posted in False Self, Reflections, Spiritual Direction, Stories | Tagged A Thousand Splendid Suns, Banff, camping, Esther Hizsa, Falling Upwards, Khaled Hosseini, Richard Rohr, Seyed Mostafa Zamani, spiritual director, spiritual director Burnaby, spiritual director Vancouver | Leave a comment

Helping God Save the Earth

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Esther Hizsa

Despite all evidence to the contrary, God will accomplish God’s purposes in Christ. This bold statement, based on Ephesians 1:10 and Colossians 1:19-20, expresses SoulStream community’s core value of hope. My experience in the Valley of Dry Bones echoed this hope. Despite … Continue reading →