This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what we might do if we stopped contracting away from life, if we undid our own everyday self-diminishment, if we trusted that we had gifts to bring and that we, and others, could be blessed by the giving, 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.

Here's our source for this week, chosen for us by Lizzie.

Questions to Ask When Waking

by Bernadette Miller

What would you do if you really knew

that life was wanting to sing through you?

What would you say if your words could convey

prayers that the world was waiting to pray?

What would you be if your being could free

some piece of the world’s un-whispered beauty?

What would you stop to bless and caress

if you believed that blessing could address

our painful illusions of brokenness?

What would you harvest from heartache and pain

if you understood loss as a way to regain

the never-forsaken terrain of belonging?

What would you love if your love could ignite

a sea full of stars on the darkest night?

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