April 28, 2018 Issue #14Welcome to a new, beautiful April edition of Spirit Fire Review. The essays and poems in this issue come together to bring joy,...
A Call to Love: "A Mustard Seed" by Elizabeth BrooksA Mustard Seed Ten days ago, I met a beautiful person full of passion and personality. She was looking for one of my colleagues who had...
An Essay by JD DeHart: "Incorporating the Bible as Literature"Incorporating the Bible as Literature Discussing religion in public schools can involve occasional tension. The role of Christian...
Poems by Sravani Singampalli: "Those Days" and "Treasure"Those days The patterns on my bed sheet Take me back to those days When I used to sit In a nearby park With feelings of emptiness But the...
A Poem by Lucia Walton Robinson: "Unexpected Jesus"Unexpected Jesus It’s Quiet Day in Lent, a time of meditation on texts our priest reads every hour. Sun slanting through windows breathes...
A Poem by Veronica Michalowski: "Bonnie 5-29-2017"BONNIE You begin like the rest of us an egg, a sperm join in the womb soft, safe. Cells duplicate each hour of the day differentiate into...
A Poem by Ruth C. Rehberg: "Supply the Need"SUPPLY THE NEED The value of quiet, and a quiet place, where the body and depleted soul can droop in privacy; free of stressed...
A Poem by Edilson A. Ferreira: "The Missed Deadline"The Missed Deadline The magazine my wife reads has launched, by the Mother’s Month, a writing contest. A married woman should report...
A Poem by Eduardo Escalante: "An instance of myself"An instance of myself In a corner of the house, a book containing a fragment of Dante addressed to the universe, the questions he asked...
Three Poems by Mary Missouri: "O My Heavenly Father", "I'll Rise Up Again", O My Heavenly Father O my Heavenly Father When You repeat Your Word to me once – It’s necessary. When You quote it twice – I should take...
A Poem by Renee’ Drummond-Brown: "Thank You Father!"THANK YOU FATHER! “For God so loved the world, That he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, But...