by Rev Alisha

Tag: reconciliation

  • Offensive Love

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    March 30, 2025Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 A story we’ve probably heard too many times to count: the story of the Prodigal Son. And yet, have you ever noticed how the story doesn’t end? How we’re left on the edge of our seats wondering what the older brother will do? Ultimately the story of the Prodigal Son…

  • The People of Pentecost

    The People of Pentecost

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    Today I find myself studying the ancient Biblical Hebrew language in a cafe, sitting next to two girls in hijabs on lunch break from the Muslim High School across the street. The waitress – a boisterous, punk, pink-haired barista – is learning French from her colleague who immigrated from France when she serves me my…

  • A Good Friday Poem

    A Good Friday Poem

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    Forget the formulathe frequency at which we fumble to find a way to figure out our freedom. I know it’s hard to hear for we have been hoodwinked and harpooned into fearand guiltand shamefinding ourselves to blamefor far too long. Maybe it wasbecausethe cross looked like an invitationfor a calculationa plus signwe thought there was…

  • Stand Tall

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    We have become a travelling peopleLetting our curiosity curate over centuries of consuming culture and clan and the colonising of what we cannot understandTaking anything we can monetise and raping the Land. Stand herewith us awhile. Stand talldo not let our ancestors take the fall for what we can still fixas mixed peopleas Caucasians combined…

  • These White Walls

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    I like small spaces, with white wallsand windows bright and protrudingso the sun and banksia can illuminemy heart. This small quiet place is where I like to startand sit and continueno other voices, no peoplefor I am a quiet soulwho likes to hear the sound of her own breathbreathing my bodymy beautymy being. ButI also…

  • Underneath the Mamre Trees

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    Three strangers sipping teaunderneath the Mamre treessipping slowly Waiting Nothing happens quickly in this creation story7 days it takes for world to breathewith water, moon and sun drenched in lightwith birds, burrowers and bugs dancing in delight. Rest A whole day of rest. Of sitting and drinking teamade by the wild gums, the heavy oaks,…

  • Wild Spirit

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    What is rising in you? Today is the beginning of the longest season in our Christian calendar: Pentecost. Today marks the day where spirit is breathed into the matter of you and in me and brings life, prophecy and deep dreaming to our bones and our flesh. Today is the fulfilment of what the life,…

  • The Never-Ending Pentecost

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    There was a timeWhen all were mutewhen darkness fellwhen all was not wellIt was cold without lightand the darkness of night covered the spaces, the whispers and traces of hope we did not know. But with one blowone wild windone sparka fire set light to our flesh, our spirit, igniting the darkIgniting the liethat darkness…

  • Bow down, sow here

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    (A response to Galatians 6: 1-17) Bend down lower, right down to your knees, feel the ground, the dirt, the worms, the matter of you and me. See how it holds magic and mystery as it grows and produces, see how the brown and the wet is the earth’s golden juices. You could almost drink…