June 07, 2021

192: Homecoming

37 minutes

Many of us avoid ever really saying what we think is true because we're afraid it will rupture the relationships that matter to us. But it's our truthfulness with one another - especially about our experiences, our values, our promises and commitments - that's so often called for if we're going to step forward into the unknown future together. So what about learning to be the ones who, in the face of rupture in our relationships, help one another to return and, in doing so, help one another tell the truth?

This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about 'becoming the weavers of that circle that could bind us' - in our personal relationships, communities, and society - 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, written by our friend Craig O'Flaherty:

Homecoming

Aloneness is a journey within,

as we seek to unlock doors

we’ve closed behind us.

Its only through each other

that our hesitant seeds might

break through a baked, red earth.

How might we become the

weavers of that circle that

could bind us?

Craig O'Flaherty