Epiphany is a moment of sudden realisation or revelation, an invitation into new understandings that enhance and enliven our consciousness that ultimately recalibrate our way of being.
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When we look up, we take our eyes off the so-called concrete familiarity of our known status in life and we reach out to the universe as if to ask for help and assistance from the God we believe is forever enlarging our consciousness. Astronomers believe that the universe is constantly evolving and expanding, its life force unrestrained by limitation or constraint, a metaphorical reminder of how the stars open our eyes and hearts to the unbounded possibility of growth and progress.
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Advent - Mary analogously reminds us that the Divine is looking for a place of habitation in the human condition, room to add aesthetic to our spirituality and invite us into new experiences of discovery.
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The Advent season and the story of the divine incarnation is a great opportunity to rediscover what it means to be human and the beauty that lies within.
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Later into every year we await the new season ‘advent’ a time characterised by the feature of arrival, the coming into view of the 'Christ mystery’ as it once again seeks to incarnate in creation.
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Self Control does not stand alone as a virtue to be cultivated in our lives, rather it belongs to all of the others. I wonder though, if it were to intentionally choose to delay gratification that the result and our offering of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Faithfulness and Goodness to others would be the natural response.
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I decided to trust that Love, that God was moving through my necessary season, I decided to trust that God was indeed with me and all that love that I wanted to give, was now being turned toward myself.
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The justice of God is about giving dignity back to those who have been crushed by the use of power and violence in the world.
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Greg's Sunday message on Peace and paying attention to the Jesus who sleeps inside our boat.
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In communities, we can constantly affirm together what is good, and kind, wise and
true. We can understand what it means to be good to ourselves, each other and
the created world around us and we can understand what God meant when the
created world was good and how best we can respond to that.
The word kindness has a gentle sound that seems to echo the presence of compassionate goodness. When someone is kind to you, you feel understood and seen. There is no judgment or harsh perception directed toward you.
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Faithfulness is not the momentary absence of an action, it is not mucking up once and declaring oneself unfaithful or faithless. Its about keeping on keeping on. Its about carrying on, cultivating faithfulness.
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Patience is part of a collective demonstration of the image of God we were designed to bear. And patience is an invitation to human flourishing.
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Joy is connected to the way we see the world. Joy is not just about having positive experiences, its fundamentally related to the way we perceive the events that are happening around us, and to us, and in us? Joy is not only about whether things are good or not in themselves, it is about how we perceive them.
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The greater hidden meaning of this word as a verb is understood as.. 'the response we give when we understand what it means to surrender our time and space to people and beings that enter our world’.
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In our wait can we abandon everything that we think, feel and believe to God?
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Where once I expected God to do all of the moving on my behalf, now I am aware of God’s invitation into the dance where together we can change the world, I just let God do the leading.
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Prayer levels the playing field, it puts everything in perspective, alleviating the pressure and anxiety from our finite minds, a panacea for the current difficulty. It is a new way of seeing, a faith filled hopefulness that elevates our consciousness. Our life as a prayer is an emerging kingdom poetic that Jesus came to reestablish and reaffirm as his primary rationale for why we exist as spiritual beings.
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We get back up again. And again. And again. And it is our capacity for hope that compels this resilience. Despite the frequent disappointments of everyday life, the human spirit has a remarkable ability to be pushed forward by hope. Yet there can come a time when this resilience is worn down.
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