by Rev Alisha

Tag: spirituality

  • Oneness in Opposites

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    Even though my very intention of creating this site was to connect body and mind, in reality, I don’t actually practice it. Who has time to sit still, or breathe through stretches or feel the vibrations against your throat through chanting? Even when I do have time to do it, it’s rarely the first thing…

  • Can you feel her?

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    (A response to Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31) Rising morning light whispers through the quilted covers,Illuminating bone and skin like a dreaming, endless summer. These first conscious breaths fill the soul with deep awakening, grown from deep wisdom, solemn ritual, the spirit’s constant enlightening. Maybe here under covers in the heat of the sun’s first glowis where…

  • Pentecost, Shavuot

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    The season of Pentecost occurs 7 weeks after Easter when, in Acts 2, the spirit of God came into all the people. Yesterday, Sunday June 9th, marked the beginning of this season. I particularly like that the English translations say the rush of wind came from heaven and not that it ‘descended’ from heaven. There…

  • I-Thou

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    (A response to Acts 2: 1-21 and Genesis 11:1-9) I’ve learned this language, culture, space, I belong to this people, this land and this race. Like a tight, knit cozy, for better or for worseI know who I am, myself and my worth. It’s easy and it’s simple, in a world full of othersto stay…