288: Uncertainty is a Sacred Path

We greatly misunderstand ourselves and other people when we take ourselves to be 'fixed', just ‘one-way’. However stuck we've become, there is something of us that is always changing, and even when we can't see it there's always the seed of change waiting for the right moment to burst forth.



So how do we learn to trust that in ourselves and others that is life's never ceasing unfolding into itself? How do we undo the rigid stories and judgments that increase the distance between us? And how do we take up an understanding about ourselves and other people that allow us to be faithful to, as our dear friend Rosemerry writes, 'uncertainty as a sacred path'? 



This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.



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Here’s our source for this week:



Never the Same



Sometimes a person wakes

believing they are a storm.

It’s hard to deny it, what,

with all the rain pouring out

of the gutters of the mind,

all the gusts blowing through,

all the squalls, all the gray.

But by afternoon, it seems obvious

they are a garden about to sprout.

By night, it is clear they are a moon—

luminous, radiant, faithful.

That’s the danger, I suppose,

of believing any frame.

Let me believe, then, in curiosity,

in wonder, in change.

Let me trust how essential it is

to stumble into the trough

of the unknown, marvel how

trough becomes wings becomes

faith becomes math. Let me trust

uncertainty is a sacred path.



Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

ahundredfallingveils.com



Photo by Lizzie Winn