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\nIn a wider culture that has told us to turn away from our own suffering and grief, to harden up and plough through, it\u2019s a deeply counter-cultural and necessary move to turn towards it and towards one another. How might we do this? And how do we trust the deep wells of goodness and capacity within and between us that can, with patience and faithfulness, transform our difficulty into love?
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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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\nTherapy\xa0
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\nthe hard season
\nwill
\nsplit you through.
\ndo not worry.
\nyou will bleed water.
\ndo not worry.
\nthis is grief.
\nyour face will fall out and
\ndown your skin
\nand
\nthere will be scorching.
\nbut do not worry.
\nkeep speaking the years from
\ntheir hiding places.
\nkeep coughing up smoke
\nfrom all the deaths you have
\ndied.
\nkeep the rage tender.
\nbecause the soft season will
\ncome.
\nit will come.
\nloud.
\nready.
\ngulping.
\nboth hands in your chest.
\nup all night.
\nup all of the nights.
\nto drink all damage into love.
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\nNayyirah Waheed
\nwww.instagram.com/nayyirahwaheedwords
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\nPhoto by Evie S. on Unsplash
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