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\nThe wider culture of the world doesn\u2019t teach us much about how to see and name the goodness of people. But we quickly learn how to compare, criticise, and find all the ways we\u2019re wanting or falling short, or how other people are. What does it take to start to see the goodness that underlies even the mistakes we make, and be ones who can help liberate that goodness into ever fuller expression? Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nBecause we're travelling this week, the sound quality is a little different from our more regular episodes. We hope to be back to our usual sound quality next week.
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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\u2019s our source for this week:
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\nSaint Francis and the Sow
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\nThe bud
\nstands for all things,
\neven for those things that don\u2019t flower,
\nfor everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
\nthough sometimes it is necessary
\nto reteach a thing its loveliness,
\nto put a hand on its brow
\nof the flower
\nand retell it in words and in touch
\nit is lovely
\nuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
\nas Saint Francis
\nput his hand on the creased forehead
\nof the sow, and told her in words and in touch
\nblessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
\nbegan remembering all down her thick length,
\nfrom the earthen snout all the way
\nthrough the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail,
\nfrom the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
\ndown through the great broken heart
\nto the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
\nfrom the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
\nthe long, perfect loveliness of sow.
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\nGalway Kinnell
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\nPhoto by ali mahmoodi on Unsplash
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