Hebrews 12

Give thanks for fire and heat. As the days grow colder, let us appreciate the chance to warm our bones. Be present to the Holy Spirit as flame. Or savor the simple, elemental fuel of the world, creating a hearth, a bonfire, or a conflagration.

            Fire can burn. Create ashes. Destroy. Or it can transform, as when something is changed by the crucible of extreme heat. Sometimes, out of flames, arises rebirth, such as the legend of the Phoenix.

Huddle close. Warm up. Let the flames ease you. Comfort you. Dance within you. — Rev Gail

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; for indeed our God is a consuming fire. — Hebrews 12:28-29

If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire. — 1 Corinthians 3:14-16

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. —Albert Schweitzer

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. — W.J. Cameron