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Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  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, Amazon Music and Spotify.

Here's our source for this week:

When there is nowhere else you feel safe,

and you think that goodness has gone extinct;

when the world seems cold as a snowed-in car

that won’t start anymore — step inside this poem.

Find solace in the spaces between each line,

breathe peace in the pause between words.

Let no one every say you don’t belong here —

you were born, you’re alive, you exist: take this

as proof that you too are loved. Say this to yourself

until it is true: May I be safe, may all beings

on this planet be safe. And feel how a small fire

kindles in your chest, spreading to the bundle

of tinder that is your heart, still humming

its tireless, ancient hymn: I am, I am, I am.

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