by Rev Alisha

Tag: femininity

  • Reclaiming the Reptilian

    Reclaiming the Reptilian

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    Sometimes the world feels like it is against me. I admit I contribute to this rivalry: intensifying the fight more than I might need to. But I can’t help it, or it feels like I can’t. Or I haven’t yet mastered the tools of disarming my reptilian brain. Like a wild animal, my hair stands…

  • This Barren Tomb

    This Barren Tomb

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    We have journeyed long and hard, into the recesses of our souls, in the darkness of the night, in the unknown and frightful, to find ourselves at an empty tomb, with joy and praise, with love and laughter, and yet with fear. Where are you in this hollow? What is this call to follow you…

  • The Goddess’s Prayer

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    Mama, infuser of Heaven on EarthHallowed by your Arms of Wonder and Warmth.May this Home be our Home,as we open to the Sacredness in its Simplicity. Give us nourishment to live into this reality.Help us let go of the toxicity separating ourselves from othersfrom our own selves.A toxicity that eludes us from this reality.Lead us…

  • The Yin Within

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    Climb up the mountainwith every stepcloser to the cloud of unknowingundoing everything you ever thought you knewundoing everything you try to hold ontooh malice and measure, the monotony, the manipulative madnessof man, of male, masculinity and misogynyall this energyand enter into the cloud of unknowingits darknessas night fallsand moonlight starts to draw you into its…

  • “In God we live and move and have our being” – Acts 17:28

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    I remembera time when she was lost in rhymeskipping rope,singing loudly, dancing proudlycollecting snails in jarsskipping and running just to see how farshe could go.When she would lay down in grassall covered with snowBuilding snow forts, hanging Christmas lights all aglowDreaming of Santa and presents in sleighand when the snow would melt awayshe would race…

  • Dreaming Gaia

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    Waking mildlyto the morning dewthe condensation of cold and comfortpressed against my chest. I am finding it hard to restto sleep wellto dream without pain, heartache or angerof past lovesof past friendsthese dreams that never end. Last night he returnedthe man, the father, the partner the loverit is always a man, the foolwho I end…

  • As She Carries Me

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    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…

  • Praying Without Words

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    Letting the sun of spring hit my faceonly reminds me of the goodness that is always heredeep within me when I remember to slow my pace. So I treasure the sound of rustling leaves as the gum trees sway.And in this wind I remember to pray. Not the ‘Dear God’ words I was taught when…

  • Lazarus’ Sores

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    A response to Luke 16:19-31 It is never a bad time to call out the wealthy, the one percent, the winners in society but today, with Greta Thunberg and the rest of our restless prophets and activists standing up for our earth, it is particularly fitting to not only point our fingers at them but…

  • Emerge

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    All will emerge they say… Who are they anyway?Those mystics, philosophers, musicians and artistswho wonder and dream and sit still on grass planes… All will emerge If I just sit as stilland watch the world flutter by If onlyIsathere. All will emerge If I let myself join in this fluttering symphonyand remain free within meLike…