I Believe In All That Has Never Yet Been Spoken, Episode 193
It's natural that the process of our growing into adulthood results in our leaving a whole lot of ourselves behind - as we navigate what it takes to belong, to not be shamed, to stay safe, to build a life with some measure of predicability in it. But alongside all of that, what gifts and wonders, what song and words, what works of the creativity that is uniquely human might we bring to the world in service of others? And how might we support one another in doing that?
This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about the faith in one another's bigness - and in our own - that can help us step into what's calling, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Here's our source for this week:
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy)
Photo of Durdle Door by Justin Wise