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\nIn the words of Marie Howe\u2019s beautiful poem that is our source this week, \u201cwhatever leads to joy, to more life, to less worry\u201d. Can we learn to live this way in the midst of it all - attending to joy in its deepest sense, in the way it brings us into contact with what is most real? And is there a way to not pile worry on top of everything that it already matters for us to take care of?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about the faithfulness it takes to lean into our lives, and to face their realness in doing so. 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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\nMy Dead Friends
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\n\n\nI have begun,\xa0
\nwhen I\u2019m weary and can\u2019t decide an answer to a bewildering question
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\n\n\nto ask my dead friends for their opinion\xa0
\nand the answer is often immediate and clear.
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\n\n\nShould I take the job? Move to the city? Should I try to conceive a child\xa0
\nin my middle age?
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\n\n\nThey stand in unison shaking their heads and smiling\u2014whatever leads\xa0
\nto joy, they always answer,
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\n\n\nto more life and less worry. I look into the vase where Billy\u2019s ashes were \u2014 it\u2019s\xa0
\ngreen in there, a green vase,
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\n\n\nand I ask Billy if I should return the difficult phone call, and he says, yes.\xa0
\nBilly\u2019s already gone through the frightening door,
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\n\n\nwhatever he says I\u2019ll do.
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\nMarie Howe
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\n\n\nPhoto by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash
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