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\nWe can easily live as if we're 'skating over the surface of life'. Sometimes that's an intelligent strategy for protecting ourselves from the intensity and difficulty that life can bring us. But our wider culture rarely helps us remember the depths of our lives - the depths that remind us of our mutual goodness, our pain, the ways we heal, the brevity of it all. And if we're skating the surface more than is necessary, we're barely being ourselves. What would it be to live with openness to the depths? And to bring ourselves to that task with gentleness and kindness?
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\nHosted, 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\u2019s our source for this week:
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\nLet the Leaf Fall
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\nWhen this living breaks your heart, steals
\nyour plans, when you miss the holy of here,\xa0
\nthinking thinking thinking something brighter\xa0
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\nis over there, when there is no denying\xa0
\nhow precious, how precarious\xa0
\nthis aliveness is, let\xa0
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\nyourself break again\xa0
\nand again, let\xa0
\nthe cool, almost-autumn breeze\xa0
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\nblow all the way in. Let\xa0
\nthe fading light,\xa0
\nthe falling leaf,\xa0
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\nshow you how short
\nit is, this life. How feather-fine
\nthe line.
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\nAnd then blow infinite kisses of kindness
\nto every dying-living thing, yourself\xa0
\nincluded. Always yourself included.\xa0
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\nWhoever you think you are\xa0
\ndoes not even\xa0
\ncome close.
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\nYou are big enough to hold every\xa0
\nbreak, every ache, every dark cloud,\xa0
\nevery twinkling star too.\xa0
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\nLet the leaf fall.
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\nwatch now\u2014
\nwatch how life
\ncatches you.\xa0 \xa0 \xa0\xa0
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\nJulia Fehrenbacher
\njuliafehrenbacher.com
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\nPhoto credit: Matt | Unsplash
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