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\nThere are moments when we suddenly find out that we're not separate from one another or from life... and in those moments we discover that what we're here to do is to love. Isn't that a possibility we all long for, and sometimes find so difficult to entertain - the opportunity to give love, to receive love, to have love flow through us into our work, into our relationships, into our friendships, into the street?
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\nPerhaps if we quieten down our striving and inner chatter enough, we'll find deep rivers of love waiting to be expressed. Or maybe we could put ourselves in situations where - because of what we're practicing, or opening to, or how we're softening - we might be reached by the grace of the moment and discover all of this from what and who is around us.
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\nWhichever way, it's our contention that to love and to trust in the capacity to love this heartbreaking and beautiful world, with all its tragedies and all its possibilities, is a necessary act of great faithfulness in life.
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\nThis week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 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, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nGrace\xa0
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\n\n\nIt was Grace\nStunned by the last light of the sun\nWe were swimming in a green sea, as deep as a drum\nThere are things I must record, must praise\nThere are things I have to say about the fullness and the blaze\nOf this beautiful life\nThe beloved watched the world on its knees with an infinite degree of separation\nThat was something to see\nAnd my friend told me death is like taking off a tight shoe\nAnd when I stopped looking for me\nI was able to find you\nRight there where everything is transcendent\nI can feel myself opening up, getting closer\nNo hope is enough\nI've stopped hoping, I'm learning to trust\nI came to under that red moon\nI was completely crushed\nPlease use me\nPlease move through me\nPlease unscrew me\nPlease loosen me up\nMake music with me\nMake everything stop\nMake noise and make silence with me\nMake love\nLet me be love\nLet me be loving\nLet me give love, receive love and be nothing but love\nIn love and for love and with love\nIn love and for love and with love\nSurrender, I do surrender\nMove through me and feel me get out of the way\nAnd tune into something more deep and reflective than what's to be achieved\nOr perceived\nOr affected\nWhat's my problem?\nI'm always drawn back to that wrestling match\nTen thoughts in the ring of my mind playing catch\nI can't live for the noise in my head\nI just want to dig a big ditch in the soil of my breath and bury my brain there\nBut love said\n"If you bring forth what is within you\nWhat you bring forth will save you\nBut if you do not bring forth what is within you\nWhat you do not bring forth will destroy you\u201d\nIt was Grace\nStunned by the last light of the sun\nSwimming in a green sea as deep as a drum\nThere are things I must record, must praise\nThere are things I have to say about the fullness and the blaze\nOf this beautiful life, of this beautiful life
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\nKae Tempest
\nwww.kaetempest.co.uk\n\n\n
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