This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might find ways to help one another enter into the fierce grace of living in a world in which love and loss are inseparable, 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 dear friend and partner in Thirdspace, Neena Sims

There is a moment upon waking

full of grace

empty of knowledge, free of suffering

the length of a breath -

only

and then we’re falling,

thrown once more

into the certain heart-wrenching knowledge

that he’s dead

that she’s ill

that our beloved is leaving -

or we are

our greatest fears made flesh

our cherished tomorrows torn asunder -

we’re left grasping and gasping

Perhaps this is what it’s like to be born,

to arrive blinking and crying into the light

Perhaps this is what Eve accepted and Adam received:

that to be human is to know

to be human is to wake-up

to be human is to keep breathing -

big painful gulps of paradise

that to be human is to fall

again and again

not from grace,

but into it.

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