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\nThe background culture that surrounds us very often makes the unspoken claim that what's most true about existence is cold, hard matter, and that anything else we encounter - meaning or love for example - is just something we humans invented. But what would happen if we trusted instead that there is an ancient light doing its best to shine forth through us and between us? And what would happen if we could treat the most difficult aspects of our experience, and the most challenging and painful parts of ourselves, as if they were right next to this source of light that could illuminate them? And if we treated ourselves and one another as if the light was the very surrounding in which we move and which wants to move within us?
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what opens when we understand the context of our lives and our experience to be an ancient light that's trying to find us and shine through us. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\n\n\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nHow the light comes
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\n\n\nI cannot tell you how the light comes.\nWhat I know is that it is more ancient\nthan imagining.\nThat it travels across an astounding expanse\nto reach us.\nThat it loves searching out what is hidden,\nwhat is lost, what is forgotten or in peril\nor in pain.\nThat it has a fondness for the body,\nfor finding its way toward flesh,\nfor tracing the edges of form,\nfor shining forth through the eye,\nthe hand, the heart.\nI cannot tell you how the light comes,\nbut that it does.\nThat it will.\nThat it works its way into the deepest dark\nthat enfolds you,\nthough it may seem long ages in coming\nor arrive in a shape you did not foresee.\nAnd so may we this day\nturn ourselves toward it.\nMay we lift our faces\nto let it find us.\nMay we bend our bodies\nto follow the arc it makes.\nMay we open\nand open more\nand open still\nto the blessed light\nthat comes.
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\n\n\nJan Richardson\n
\n\nPhoto by Rene B\xf6hmer on Unsplash\n