Tag: presence
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The Scandal of Christmas
Dec 25, 2025Luke 2:1-20 What if Christmas isn’t about escaping the world, but learning how to stay? This reflection explores a God who chooses fragile, finite flesh over power and prestige, and a peace that arrives not by force, but by presence. In a world marked by unpeace, Christmas invites us to remain and believe—with…
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Becoming Sanctuary
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…
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A Meeting at the Margins
Nov 23, 2025Luke 23:33-43 In a world bent on seeing red, we’re invited to see the way God truly sees us — and I mean all of us — beloved and holy. On this Christ the King Sunday, true power is revealed not from a throne or a crown looking down, but from the cross. Here, Christ’s…
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Be Still
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…
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The Way
What ifthe waythe truththe lifewas not some threadbare pathinvisible to the naked eyesomewhere far awayand up highsomething you have to work foror something you have to buy? What if the way was where you already arewaiting to be exploredwaiting for you to take off your loadto bare, instead, a yoke so easy so lightlike a…
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Rest
All my life I have pushed myself to run faster, bike further, swim longer, hike higher. Maybe my body is catching up to me or maybe I am only just starting to hear her desire to walk, coast, float and rest. More and more my intentions for a run turns into a walk. It’s not…
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Turn Around
How many timeshave you turned aroundlooked backseen the magnificentin the microscopicheard the music accompanied with every momentmagnified into the sensational serendipityof the seemingly simple? Have you wonderedwhen you walked on waterwhen birds showed off their strut or their streamline precisionwhen nests reminded you of your own need to rest?Have you stoppedto fall on your kneesbowed…
by Rev Alisha 