Liminal Space, Episode 230

We might imagine we can choose the 'threshold moments', when we're called to step into the unknown. Sometimes we can. But as events in the world remind us this week, what changes around us and within us often comes without warning and without our say-so.

One response to transitions on whatever scale is to run from them, or to try to be in control of them on our own. But that rarely works out, because for us to be in charge would mean having powers that none of us have. Instead, can we turn towards them and have them be an opportunity for us to connect with one another's lives more deeply, listen more fully, and support one another? And what kind of world might open if we did?

This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about turning towards what's being born, perhaps right when we're least ready for it.. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

You can find out more about our Professional Coaching Course, which we talk a little about in this episode, on the Thirdspace website here.

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Liminal Space

In this
waiting place
we loiter, hover,
on a tentative cusp,
a threshold,
between the familiar
and the unknown,
with no possible retreat.
The customary comfort zone
is gone, and where
the entrance ushers
is not yet seen.
Our new question
(let alone its answer)
still is ambiguous.
We are in limbo.
We can either hesitate
or go forward.
The gossamer veil
of divine nearness
flutters ever so lightly,
breathing inseparably close,
as we step to embrace
the unrevealed with trust,
a shimmering opportunity
for connection and listening
and being led right on through.
Lean into this portal;
it is the doorstep
to fruitful ground.

by Polly Castor
pollycastor.com

Photo by Mark Basarab on Unsplash

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