WELCOME to
"The hearth is ... the place of warmth, belonging and intimacy. This is a powerful metaphor for the spiritual quest, for the hearth is the place where the heart is at home. This is the longing in all spirituality: to come in out of the winter of alienation, self-division, and exile and into the hearth of warmth and at-one-ment.
The spiritual journey is the journey home.”
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-John O’Donohue
Four Elements: Reflections on Nature
Hearth Gatherings are opportunities for people to discover and develop their relationship with the One who created all beings in Love and draws us into an interconnected network of relationships.
John O’Donohue reminds us we are children of the earth’s dreaming who have broken through into this time and place. We are fashioned in the dreaming of the clay which formed us. Our bodies remember the clay and they know that we belong. It is only our minds that make our lives feel empty and disconnected.
At the deepest level we know that, as much as the mountains, rivers, and animals, we belong here on earth. Our life’s journey is the task of refining our belonging, so that it may become more true, loving, good and free.
Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential and it will not rest until it is awakened.
GATHERINGS
RETREATS
Gentle retreats in the Christian tradition with time for silence, individual and communal prayer, spiritual direction and sacred sharing.
REFLECTIONS
Monthly face to face and online reflections, with supporting materials and recordings included.
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CONVERSATIONS
Spiritual accompaniment and spiritual exercises for those seeking to grow in deeper understanding of their unique gifts.
