Giving can, for many of us, be a fraught experience. Maybe we give to one another in the expectation of a particular kind of response or validation, and then maybe we get it… or not. Or we might hold back from giving as a way to keep ourselves safe from being exposed and getting things wrong.

How we give to one another and how our giving brings life to both giver and receiver are our topic for this conversation. Is there a way we might find to enter into a more mutual, life-giving, trusting reciprocity around our giving and loving one another, and the world?

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

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Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. 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, Amazon Music and Spotify.

Highlights of our conversation:

00.00 Introduction and Welcome
04.35 Exploring the source, Once Loved
13.20 Polarities of Giving and Receiving
16.33 Cultivating Faith in Life’s Benevolence
19.26 Shifting Narratives
22.28 Generosity, Nurture, Care
25.19 Care vs Use
28.27 Closing Reflections

Here’s our source for this week:

Once Loved

World
Once loved
Will always yield
Its rewards to the
Giver

Meadow
Once grazed
Will never mind
Ceding grass to the
Grazer

Man
Once loved
Will never lose
Hope while holding the
Lover

Tree
Once hugged
Will never live
Life without loving the
Hugger

Stefan Atkinson

Photo by Peter Herrmann on Unsplash

378: Once Loved