New Book: "In the Heart of the Beloved:

Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim, Volume 3"

with Esther Hizsa

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Our Guest today is Esther Hizsa who has just released a new book called "In the Heart of the Beloved: Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim, Volume 3"

Esther is a writer, spiritual director (trained through SoulStream) and co-facilitator of SoulStream’s Living from the Heart course. She is also a mother, grandmother and wife married for 43 years to her husband, Fred. She and Fred live in Burnaby and love the outdoors, spending as much time as they can hiking in the mountains, biking in wide open spaces, and walking in the woods or by the sea. Esther is the author of three books and a blog, An Everyday Pilgrim.


In this episode we discuss...



All three of Esther's books (from her website)


In the Heart of the Beloved: Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim, Volume 3 by Esther Hizsa (2022)
Revised blog posts of stories, reflections and poems from January 2015 to December 2016. More information 
here.


Seed Cracked Open: Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim, Volume 2 by Esther Hizsa (2019) is available on Amazon. Revised blog posts of stories, reflections and poems from July 2013 to December 2014 plus five silent retreat outlines.


Stories of an Everyday Pilgrim by Esther Hizsa (2015) is available on Amazon. Stories, reflections and poems of the beginning of Esther’s contemplative journey.

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