by Rev Alisha

Tag: becoming

  • Becoming Sanctuary

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    Dec 21, 2025Luke 1:26-56 In the wake of last week’s violence at Bondi, the story of Elizabeth and Mary calls us to pause, rather than rush to solutions. For it is often in the watching, in the waiting, in the quiet courage of simply being, that God’s work of deep and tender healing begins to…

  • Be Still

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    Nov 16, 2025Luke 21:5-19 What if the biggest threat in our modern world was not polarizing politics, waging wars or the cost-of-living? What if it was in the inability to be still? Through stories of remembrance, the rubble of Luke’s world, and the wisdom of the mystics, we discover the still point where God and…

  • Becoming

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    I wonder what it would be like to move slowly in this worldto be a snail and find home in memy curvesmy shellthe delicacy of my flesh.To leave an imprint of myselfas I travel subtlysmoothlysimplyon the sun-beaten cement. To find places of solace on a stonebetween slivers and grooves of a cedarlearning to staybeing grateful…

  • Become

    Become

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    (A Blessing for Blue Christmas) Not all things are brightand brilliantor ready to be birthedin the bustle of this season. The bulk of uswithin our bodiesbeneath this veilis the deep abyss of blueof beingburnedbruisedbut not broken. Believe beyond anything you didor those savage beasts have done to youdoes not define youNo.see how it refines youinto…