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\nHow finite everything is, including the time we will get to spend with any of our great loves. And how much we want to turn away from this, avoiding feeling too much of our love in an attempt to try and avoid the inevitable grief that will come with our losses. But to feel it all is one of the great gifts given to us as human beings. So how can we find a way to stay open, ready, and receptive in the midst of it all?\xa0
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what it might take to show up for our lives in all their beauty and all their losses, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify.
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\n\n\nHere's our source for this week, written by Lizzie.
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\nVulnerable\n\n
\n\nConnection and Death are not fair as things that go side by side.\xa0\nThe more I love the more there is to lose.\xa0\nOf course I just want to not love, then there\u2019s nothing to lose.\xa0\nBut then I look at your cheeks, and your lips and the creases behind your knees.\xa0\nAnd there\u2019s nothing else to do but sink my face into your neck and snuggle.\xa0\nTo the point where you\u2019re annoyed with me.\xa0\n
\n\nTo love and to need, and to know that it\u2019s all in the context of temporary.\xa0\nTo feel and to laugh and to know it\u2019s all going to end far too soon.\xa0\nIt\u2019s too much for my all too human and clingy heart.\xa0\nIt will surely break. Be smashed to smithereens.\nMaybe it needs to break each and every day in preparation for the grand break?\nThe one that will come when \u2018the time\u2019 is \u2018that time\u2019.\n
\n\nI fearfully withdraw and within minutes I\u2019m back there again,\xa0\nAsking to be loved, offering my love and planning how we can be together.\xa0\nSalivating at the ordinary moments of loading the dishwasher while you talk to me.\xa0\nFeeling my pulse race at the next time we can hug full body to body.\xa0\nEven letting our knees touch, rubbing cheeks, knocking glasses. Messing each other\u2019s hair up in celebration.\n
\n\nI know I could stay in that withdrawn, safe, small space too.\xa0\nAnd protect myself against this tsunami of grief that\u2019s sadness.\xa0 This avalanche of love.\xa0\nThere\u2019s too much at stake. Our hearts are too bare.\xa0\nOur skin is too receptive. To be able to stay there, open, ready, receptive.\xa0\nAnd yet, we\u2019re here, in these bodies.\xa0 The body holds us to this deal.\nWhat else is there to do but love and be broken open by life, by love, by connectedness?\n
\n\nI\u2019m done for.\xa0\nSo are you.\xa0\nWe all are.\xa0\nThere\u2019s no way out.\xa0\nFrom love.\xa0\n
\n\nLizzie Winn March 2021\n\n
\nPhoto by Andrew Shelley on Unsplash\n