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Maybe it’s time to let it all fall apart; to stop holding on, holding together, that which is broken beyond repair. Let it burn to ash.Let it crumble and collapse,decompose. Is this not the way of all things?Maybe oursis a season of death.Then, so be it.Let it all...
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I once attended a retreat where participants were instructed to spend some time in nature and look for something that “spoke” to them. Whatever spoke to you, you were to pick up and bring back to the gathering-room to share.Walking down a wooded path, I...
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I recently listened as a colleague ticked off a long list of losses. Each loss felt, to me, like an autumn leaf, brown and shriveled, dropping from a tree, from his lips, one by one. I could see the leaves falling, piling at his feet. I could feel loss upon loss...
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Occasionally, it’s possible to catch a glimpse of gratitude bubbling up on the periphery of life’s most painful experiences. This gratitude is bashful, hovering just to the side of things, small and round, like a spot of light, refracted. This gratitude...
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Turn verb: to (cause to) change the direction in which you are facing or moving. It’s the end of a long day at the end of a longer week and I’m finally beginning unwind as I sit on the loveseat preparing to read to my youngest boys. One boy sits on...
