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In Tomb
I have found myself, post-Easter, scrambling, waiting, watching and mourning. Do we, as a world, ever have the luxury of entering into resurrection? It often feels more like we are at the foot of the cross than spreading news of miracles and of joy. Last week I chatted with my spiritual director and she highlighted…
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Palm Sunday Prayer
We open to you today, to the spirit that lives and breathes in our bodies. May we quiet our minds and hear the path, the sound of palm on earth, being set before us this morning. May we feel with every inhale, the wild beauty of life filling the marrow of our bones. With every…
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Walking on Water
The past few weeks I have been wrestling with my path, purpose and passion. During a time of fear and uncertainty, where most people are locked in, I still have a job and can leave the house, speak with other people face-to-face, three days a week. It’s glorious…. well, not really, it’s still a job.…
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As She Carries Me
I have spent the last 10 years deconstructing a God as separate from our beings, a God who lives somewhere above the clouds and God as Father. But it seems that the first 20 years of conservative Christian formation is much stronger than I had anticipated. It takes quite a lot of awareness and intentional…
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The Lie in My Bones
A long time agoman birthed from breathdirt turned to bonebone brokeninto womanapple eaten and so began the hymn of pridethe dance of shame. It is the world’s longest gameRoll the dicePick a tribePride and shame is the lie that starts deep inside. Oh how I long for the daybefore we were made out of clayswimming…
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Angels and Devils
This week I have completely given into the dualities of my emotions, becoming completely ecstatic by beautiful mini-miracles that have been blossoming before my eyes but then completely being overtaken by anger and sadness at how lost people and society are. Just as soon as the angel on my shoulder tugs me one way, the…
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A Hollowing
This feelingof sun dancing on wavesthe cool wisp of windyou can almost hear the whales singI breathe it all in. And just like that. The tides change. The waves no longer lapping my chin,I find myself deep within reachingfightingbreathing it never felt so far awaypanic and pain is all that remain So I let goGive…
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Lent
I thought I would give Lent a go this year, like I tell myself every year. But this year it has actually stuck. No alcohol. No chips. Sundays are a saving grace and had I known you could break Lent once a week before, I may have been more successful at it. But this 40…
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Floating in this dingy
Some days I am overjoyed at my decision to leave Canada and move to Australia. To start anew. To reinvent myself. To make new friends. To try new things. Some days it’s exhilarating and I find myself wanting to pinch myself to remind me it’s real. But other days, days like today, I wonder why.…
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Stuck
I am 10 years old all over again.In a classroom, with a cubby where I put my cold cutsThe air is dozyThe floors are tinted orange, speckled brownIt reminds me of dirt and of earthand how I belongbut alas there are wallsand childrenwho look just like meand we are trapped in this microcosm of spaceand…
by Rev Alisha 