by Esther Hizsa We have a wide range of emotion in us. While we tend to welcome feelings such as joy, peace and wonder, we aren’t so crazy about anger, disappointment…
By Esther Hizsa “I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another…
How is God calling me to respond to our beautiful, broken world? The same way I am asked to do everything else: contemplatively. “Contemplatively” simply means living out of the reality that we are always in union…
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, expressesSoulStream community’s core value of hope. My experience in…
I close my eyes to pray, and the hand of the Lord is on me. Like Ezekiel, I am brought out by the Spirit of the Lord and set in the middle of a valley…
“Where is your brother Abel?” The Lord asked Cain. Cain, the first child born on earth, had killed Abel. I can imagine God’s anguish. “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries…
Pilgrimage By Esther Hizsa, from Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim (unpublished) Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. – Luke 9:51b Ash Wednesday He’s on the road waiting for me today…
Peace Dancing By Esther Hizsa 2013 Peace is joy resting, and joy is peace dancing. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon September 1998 I got a phone call from my brother. “She…
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