by Rev Alisha

Tag: spirituality

  • Befriending the Dark

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    March 1, 2026John 3:1-17 What would happen if we saw darkness not as something to turn from but to be transformed by? In a culture (and a faith) addicted to light, certainty, productivity, and being right, John 3 offers a different way. A way of unknowing, where darkness becomes the place not only of honesty…

  • The Way of the Wilderness

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    Feb 22, 2026Matthew 4:1-11 From swept floors at Lunar New Year to the long fast of Ramadan and Jesus’ forty days in the desert, this week we follow the long thread of truth woven through human history: that renewal begins with release. This reflection explores Lent as an embodied practice, marked not just in calendars…

  • Letting the Light Out

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    Feb 15, 2026Matthew 17:1-9 We’re drawn to stories where impossibility doesn’t have the final word — where something luminous emerges anyway. This reflection weaves the Transfiguration story with human lives shaped by struggle to ask what it really means to see. Not to escape the world, but to recognise how inner light takes form in…

  • The Story that Costs us Something

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    Jan 25, 20261 Corinthians 1:10-18 Australia tells a story about a fair go, mateship, and equality, but that story is incomplete without truth about this land and its First Peoples. In that space between who we say we are and who we are still becoming, the story of the cross invites us into reconciliation shaped…

  • What Are You Looking For?

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    Jan 18, 2026John 1:29-42 What if the thing you’ve been searching for has been quietly looking for you all along? We live in a world that tells us what to look at, what to fear, and who to blame — and in the noise, it’s easy to lose sight of what we’re actually longing for.…

  • Becoming the Change

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    Jan 11, 2026Matthew 3:13-17 In times of fire, fear, and division, the Gospel does not offer easy fixes — it offers transformation. Between the Victorian bushfires, the escalating dehumanization of both Jews and Muslims fueled by political and public rhetoric, and the erosion of democracy in the so-called “land of the free,” it’s hard to…

  • Something Out of Nothing

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    Jan 4, 2025 Isaiah 25:6-10aRevelation 21:1-6a We begin at a threshold — where Isaiah’s feast of rich food and wiped tears meets the ache and uncertainty of the present. Through scripture, memory, and the ordinary holiness of communion, imagination emerges not as escape but as resistance — the way God keeps making something out of…

  • The Scandal of Christmas

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    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…

  • 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…

  • Awake My Soul

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    Nov 30, 2025Matthew 24:36-44 We live in a culture that tells us hope comes in a coca-cola coloured Santa Claus, sparkling lights, the perfect Christmas lunch, and, of course, an Australian Cricket win. Yet real hope breaks through in the humdrum, mundane, and ordinary of life. In our first week of Advent, we are called…