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\nCan we learn to live with the certainty that we'll lose the ones we love, and they will lose us, without tuning out, avoiding, denying or imagining that it's some form of punishment? Can we learn how to bring together the fullness of the joys of loving as well as the sorrows?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might find ways to help one another enter into the fierce grace of living in a world in which love and loss are inseparable, 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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\nHere's our source for this week, written by our dear friend and partner in Thirdspace, Neena Sims
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\nFalling
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\n\n\nThere is a moment upon waking
\nfull of grace
\nempty of knowledge, free of suffering
\nthe length of a breath -\nonly\nand then we\u2019re falling,
\nthrown once more
\ninto the certain heart-wrenching knowledge
\nthat he\u2019s dead
\nthat she\u2019s ill
\nthat our beloved is leaving -\nor we are\nour greatest fears made flesh
\nour cherished tomorrows torn asunder -\nwe\u2019re left grasping and gasping\nPerhaps this is what it\u2019s like to be born,
\nto arrive blinking and crying into the light\nPerhaps this is what Eve accepted and Adam received:
\nthat to be human is to know
\nto be human is to wake-up
\nto be human is to keep breathing -
\nbig painful gulps of paradise\nthat to be human is to fall
\nagain and again
\nnot from grace,
\nbut into it.
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\n\n\nNeena Sims\n\n
\nPhoto by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash\n\n
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