This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what opens when we understand the context of our lives and our experience to be an ancient light that's trying to find us and shine through us. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

Here's our source for this week:

I cannot tell you how the light comes.

What I know is that it is more ancient

than imagining.

That it travels across an astounding expanse

to reach us.

That it loves searching out what is hidden,

what is lost, what is forgotten or in peril

or in pain.

That it has a fondness for the body,

for finding its way toward flesh,

for tracing the edges of form,

for shining forth through the eye,

the hand, the heart.

I cannot tell you how the light comes,

but that it does.

That it will.

That it works its way into the deepest dark

that enfolds you,

though it may seem long ages in coming

or arrive in a shape you did not foresee.

And so may we this day

turn ourselves toward it.

May we lift our faces

to let it find us.

May we bend our bodies

to follow the arc it makes.

May we open

and open more

and open still

to the blessed light

that comes.

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