If You Sit Long Enough

If you sit long enough, and still, the world might reveal itself in ways you had not, yet, imagined. If you'll dance with the people and things of your life, you might find they come forward and dance with you in return. Because the world is always offering us to our imagination... and our capacity to be in the world 'as if' is one that we don't always remember to draw upon.

This week's Turning Towards Life is conversation about how the world is always being shaped by the way we're engaging in it, and shaping us in return, 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:

If you sit long enough

If you sit long enough,

and still,

the birds will come

and you will see

that the world you thought

was all yours to carry

all alone

has only a veil

between it

and all the other worlds.

The birds know this

and delight

to draw your gaze

and ignite your heart

by pulling back the curtain

and modelling what it is

to live and build and feed and grow

trusting

that all you will ever need

has already been provided.

Possessing such wisdom

why wouldn't you

sing and shout and show off your colours

in loopy flights,

and try,

for the millionth time

to dance on an acorn?

by Beth Rookwood

Photo by Gary Bendig on Unsplash