What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
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What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase. The hum of imaginative voltage.
The useful is the invitation to depth that myth always offers. Because if there’s uncertainty, then we are no longer sure quite what’s the right way to behave. And there’s potential in that, an openness to new forms.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
So as I approach the mystery of telling these stories again, the uncertainty of working into my mythmaking, I wonder if we could do something similar with our own narratives. What are we bored by, what needs to stay buried? What deserves to be re-imagined, re-seeded, re-beheld? That’s where the joyful work is. I’m handing you a spade.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
Mystery is an encounter with an unsearchable reality, an acknowledgement that the world crackles with possibility because it is steeped in the shocking and unpredictable presence of God.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
If your life feels peculiar, flamboyant, occasionally shameful, then those are the markings of that emerging authenticity.
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
the presence of mystery in the world is an invitation to wonder, and a world without mystery is a world of despair.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
It means rescuing little ideas that gleam for a second in our soul then disappear. Coaxing them back. It means attention to not this or that but possibly both or some other way entirely. This isn’t necessarily easy, being so conditioned as we are to yes or no, black or white. And sometimes that third position is not what many would call a logical r... See more
Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
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