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\nHow can we be the ones who create safety for other people to bring their troubles, longings, hopes, pain and fear our way? And how can stay long enough, and not turn away? And how do we then accompany one another as we address what we find - with love, truthfulness, patience and exquisite care?
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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's our source for this week:
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\nLike the Trees
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\nYou have been waiting for the body to say,
\nThis is not an emergency, you are safe.
\nAnd when it finally does, in a whisper
\nyou almost don\u2019t believe, you can breathe
\na full breath again, and then another,
\nat last trusting the open arms of trees,
\neven their menacing shadows at midnight.
\nNow you know everything that grows must
\nalso feel pain, must fear and doubt until they
\nsense this same quickening, like sap rising
\nup in the trunk and spreading through
\neach limb. You have lived as if underground,
\nbut now you are breaking open, breaking
\nfree, becoming so vast and green, you make
\na shady place for others to rest in.
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\nJames Crews
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\nPhoto by Jan Huber on Unsplash\n