When something difficult or unwelcome happens, there are many reasons for us to contract away from our lives in an attempt to control what we're feeling. It's a kind of self-protection, yes, but can also be a kind of violence to ourselves. And it often cuts us off from what could most support us, open us, and hold us. So how about learning to connect to the memory of our vastness, and our intimacy with all of life, when we are triggered to retreat? This episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about remembering the ways in which we already belong to life, and what might come from that; hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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Our source this week is brought to us by Lizzie, and written by Jasmina Zukan:
When the unexpected hit
Comes
Allow
Its raw violence
To force the air
Out of your lungs
From the inside out
Let it shatter
Your heart into
Million pieces
Watch it blow
Your center away
Like it was nothing
More than a dune
In a desert sand
Fall into nothingness
As you feel the ground
Being pulled under you
Be still
As a sailing boat
On a windless sea
And surrender
To The One
Who created you
The first time
To Him we belong
And to Him we return
And only He
Creates us
Again
And again
Each time more beautiful
Surrender
And witness
His work
Of making
You
Whole
Again
And flow
In His Mercy
And Love
And love
