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\nChange is everywhere. Within us. Around us. And, sometimes, in our longing for some stability, some centre of \u2018no change\u2019 in the tumult of our lives, we\u2019ll close ourselves off from the truth of things, numbing ourselves, distracting ourselves, and pretending it isn\u2019t happening.
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\nBut the truth is that everything changes. And although we might try to fight it, we human beings long for what is true, what is real, and for intimacy with the world. So can we instead \u2018make an altar to change\u2019, and turn towards its ever-presence as a way of deepening our engagement with life, and with one another?
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\nHosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nBecome The Wind\xa0
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\nWhat if we built an altar to change?
\nDedicated ourselves to the idea,
\nbowed down to that which
\nis not steadfast.
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\nPerhaps there would be an empty bowl
\nin the middle that might break
\nat any moment.
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\nPerhaps in the center there is only a shard
\nthat we must learn to worship.
\nWe don\u2019t come to this altar begging,
\nwe come to be reminded
\nthere is nothing to beg for.
\nWe are happy. We are devastated.
\nWe are whole. We are broken.
\nIt rains. It clears.
\nAll at the same time.
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\nOr maybe in the center there is a mirror
\nWhich reflects only what is,
\nnot necessarily what is wanted.
\nAn altar where we come to meet truth,
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\nto bow down to it.
\nTo open the window of the heart
\nand accept that there is no choice
\nbut to be changed.
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\nPenny Hackett-Evans
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\nPhoto by Colin Watts on Unsplash
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