Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”
― David W. Augsburger
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“…what I discovered is a deepening into myself, a sort of coming home to who I am. Each day I felt more grounded and centered. The weather was warm and cold and rainy and sunny and windy and wonderful. I felt more alive, more awake to the world.”
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…when we finally eat we come back to ourselves, we see more clearly, our perspective is better, our humor returns, and we regain our ability to be in relationship with others.
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There are plenty of examples of inspiring people who have seen terrible things and gone on to change the world. I love a grand redemption story as much as the next person. But please don’t forget that sometimes the bravest most loving thing someone can do after great tragedy and trauma is to dare to get up the next morning, to love their people, and to go about the quiet steady work of breaking cycles, seeking hope, and finding beauty around them.
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In all my seeking I have seen the heights and depths of humanity, I’ve heard unbelievable and enchanting encounters with the Divine, I’ve questioned everything I ever knew and become really uncomfortable, and what I’m most certain of today is that I’ve still hardly seen anything. The wilderness is so big and so vast, the questions just keep going deeper, and holding it all together is something so sacred, it is all I can do to keep seeking.
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We think sharing our stories will break us, and might even break anyone who hears them- but it is the telling and the receiving of stories that will heal us. It will heal us all. I wonder what it would have been like for her to share her stories and have someone hear them, receive them, love her in spite of or because of them. I don’t get to know.
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But there’s the rub- only when we allow ourselves that space can we see that NOBODY has it all together and EVERYBODY is falling apart in one way or another. We weren’t built to do this alone, we were absolutely built to live in community, connected, supporting one another- the mess is where the life is.
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The last several years have felt like a constant back and forth between working to move forward in my professional life, and getting stopped dead in my tracks by the insurmountable needs of my and my family’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. With each pause or full stop I have to remind myself that there is time, and there is space, and not everything has to happen all at once.
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The thing about loosing all connection to yourself is that it actually becomes much harder to show up for everyone’s needs. If I don’t know who I am, what I enjoy, what makes me truly ME, then how do I know how I would show up in any given situation?
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We hear the familiar drum beat to go bigger, faster, and stronger despite all that surrounds us. We feel the weight of the expectations of the culture to show up in these ways. But many of us are tapped out.
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When I am present in my body I can go deeper in my mind and soul.
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