Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

It is in these fallow times, when our efforts feel forced and there’s no momentum with our progress, that we must aspire to love ourselves more generously.

We grieve the paths we didn’t walk. We grieve the family we never had. We grieve the suffering of the planet.

because you can only grieve what you have dearly loved.

Like the mother who is careful about those she brings home to meet her child because she wants to create stable attachments, we must be similarly cautious with our hearts.

vision was ripening on its own timeline. And rather than indulging in impatience, it was an opportunity to beckon it towards me.

Without our attention and intervention, it can spread a drabness across the whole of one’s life.

Disappointment appears when somebody or something has let you down, or when you feel as if you’ve missed your own mark. Things have fallen short of your hopes and expectations. And with too many of these experiences, life itself can feel like a disappointment, never turning out as you wished it to. But this guest also has a concealed medicine for u

In the practice of belonging, anger is essential. It shows up to protect us, like a fierce sentinel, guarding what is still too tender to be seen.

Sink down into your estrangement, and let the grief of your disappointment be the moisture that baptizes the seeds of your potential so they can finally break open.