There's a pattern to our reactions...

to the power in our lives...

and that power shapes us in healthy and unhealthy ways.

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What do you do when you feel like life is an exhausting fight?

What are you fighting against? Others? Yourself? Something or someone else?

Figuring out who you are is the greatest struggle and greatest privilege.

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When the box of your worldview isn't working...

What if something else is going on?

What if there was a way to decipher what was happening?

What if it meant you would never be the same again?

You're not ready to sustain the vision you were given.

You can be.

Make peace with the gap.

Release the broken path.

See the other even while you suffer.

Forgive and test.

Then you'll be unstoppable.

Your life will always be full of hardships and challenges.

You can numb out and lose your spark.

Or you can stay on the lookout for when water turns to wine.

In life we look for the big moments. We drive towards mountaintops that will fix everything or make it all better.

Yet it's in the cave that we find our truth.

It's in the "sound of thin silence" we find our way.

And we can't really begin until we unlearn what go us here.

In extremist thinking we fail to understand the bigness and beauty of identity.

Some of you isn't the sum of you.

Yet, on the extreme right they demonize and diminish the struggle for becoming.

On the extreme left they victimize around whatever is the least validated part of their identity.

The electric middle is where we stand in the beauty of me and we.

There's no transformation without leaving the institutions of our lives.

As we leave them (internally and maybe externally also) do they champion our progression and development?

We're in the midst of an era where our institutions are reinforcing shame rather than removing it.

Find the courage to find your way.