We might imagine we can choose the 'threshold moments', when we're called to step into the unknown. Sometimes we can. But as events in the world remind us this week, what changes around us and within us often comes without warning and without our say-so.



One response to transitions on whatever scale is to run from them, or to try to be in control of them on our own. But that rarely works out, because for us to be in charge would mean having powers that none of us have. Instead, can we turn towards them and have them be an opportunity for us to connect with one another's lives more deeply, listen more fully, and support one another? And what kind of world might open if we did?



This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about turning towards what's being born, perhaps right when we're least ready for it. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.



This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. 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 and Spotify.



You can find out more about our Professional Coaching Course, which we talk a little about in this episode, on the Thirdspace website here.



Here's our source for this week:

Liminal Space



In this

waiting place

we loiter, hover,

on a tentative cusp,

a threshold,

between the familiar

and the unknown,

with no possible retreat.

The customary comfort zone

is gone, and where

the entrance ushers

is not yet seen.

Our new question

(let alone its answer)

still is ambiguous.

We are in limbo.

We can either hesitate

or go forward.

The gossamer veil

of divine nearness

flutters ever so lightly,

breathing inseparably close,

as we step to embrace

the unrevealed with trust,

a shimmering opportunity

for connection and listening

and being led right on through.

Lean into this portal;

it is the doorstep

to fruitful ground.



by Polly Castor

pollycastor.com



Photo by Mark Basarab on Unsplash