What happens when we find out that we are not, as we had thought, separate from the world, but are instead participants in a vast context that stretches back into deep time and that holds us and makes us, even as we make it?



From this vantage point perhaps we get to see that in being living, sentient, relational beings in such an inescapably relationship-rich context we are in some ways very small, and in other ways have the enormous power to shape what we pay attention to, and what we cultivate in response to the the world. And that it is exactly this capacity to choose that can make the difference between our making cultures of kindness, care and inclusion, or those that tear us apart. 



This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.



Turning 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.  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.



Here's our source for this week:



WORKING TOGETHER



We shape our selves

to fit this world

and by the world

are shaped again.

The visible

and the invisible

working together

in common cause,

- to produce 

the miraculous.

I am thinking 

of the way

the intangible air

passed at speed

round 

a shaped wing

easily

holds our weight.

So may we, 

in this life

trust

to those elements

we have yet to see

or imagine,

and find the true

shape of our own self,

by forming it well

to the great 

intangibles about us.



David Whyte



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