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\nWe might imagine we can choose the 'threshold moments', when we're called to step into the unknown. Sometimes we can. But as events in the world remind us this week, what changes around us and within us often comes without warning and without our say-so.
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\nOne response to transitions on whatever scale is to run from them, or to try to be in control of them on our own. But that rarely works out, because for us to be in charge would mean having powers that none of us have. Instead, can we turn towards them and have them be an opportunity for us to connect with one another's lives more deeply, listen more fully, and support one another? And what kind of world might open if we did?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about turning towards what's being born, perhaps right when we're least ready for it. It's 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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\nYou can find out more about our Professional Coaching Course, which we talk a little about in this episode, on the Thirdspace website here.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\n\n\n\nLiminal Space
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\nIn this
\nwaiting place
\nwe loiter, hover,
\non a tentative cusp,
\na threshold,
\nbetween the familiar
\nand the unknown,
\nwith no possible retreat.
\nThe customary comfort zone
\nis gone, and where
\nthe entrance ushers
\nis not yet seen.
\nOur new question
\n(let alone its answer)
\nstill is ambiguous.
\nWe are in limbo.
\nWe can either hesitate
\nor go forward.
\nThe gossamer veil
\nof divine nearness
\nflutters ever so lightly,
\nbreathing inseparably close,
\nas we step to embrace
\nthe unrevealed with trust,
\na shimmering opportunity
\nfor connection and listening
\nand being led right on through.
\nLean into this portal;
\nit is the doorstep
\nto fruitful ground.
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\nby Polly Castor
\npollycastor.com
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\nPhoto by Mark Basarab on Unsplash
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