Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home

In times of exhaustion and suffering, fear and frustration, we must hold the tension of wanting to give up while remaining committed long enough for the process to complete itself.

Only in this state of missing, of absence, can life be drawn into itself. Like the womb which is an empty vessel waiting for the seed of life, longing is the force that pulls potential towards it. Rather than a thing to be tolerated or gotten rid of, longing should be venerated as the elemental gravity that attracts towards us the life and world we

At the heart of exile, we must finally encounter the longing we have hidden in our own hearts. Longing is an impulse, born out of what is missing from us which we ache to return to, even if we’ve never known it directly. It aches too, for our homecoming.

It is reaching out when you’d rather hide. It’s asking for help when you feel abandoned.

The discipline needed for shame is to practice revealing yourself.

Every time we give away too much admiration and leave ourselves with a deficit.

Without support or momentum, are you still faithful to what you long for? Or do you give up too easily on what you’ve pledged yourself to? Disappointment is the secret teacher of devotion. It calls forward your unwavering fidelity to the path.

Inside the failure of the situation burns our longing for something better. Disappointment says “I expect more.”

Once you know what your instincts are telling you, you can begin to make necessary changes in your life.