Giving can, for many of us, be a fraught experience. Maybe we give to one another in the expectation of a particular kind of response or validation, and then maybe we get it… or not. Or we might hold back from giving as a way to keep ourselves safe from being exposed and getting things wrong.



How we give to one another and how our giving brings life to both giver and receiver are our topic for this conversation. Is there a way we might find to enter into a more mutual, life-giving, trusting reciprocity around our giving and loving one another, and the world?



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



Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribe

Support Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife



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.



Highlights of our conversation:



00.00 Introduction and Welcome

04.35 Exploring the source, Once Loved

13.20 Polarities of Giving and Receiving

16.33 Cultivating Faith in Life’s Benevolence

19.26 Shifting Narratives

22.28 Generosity, Nurture, Care

25.19 Care vs Use

28.27 Closing Reflections



Here’s our source for this week:



Once Loved



World

Once loved

Will always yield

Its rewards to the

Giver



Meadow

Once grazed

Will never mind

Ceding grass to the

Grazer



Man

Once loved

Will never lose

Hope while holding the

Lover



Tree

Once hugged

Will never live

Life without loving the

Hugger



Stefan Atkinson



Photo by Peter Herrmann on Unsplash