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Night 3

Night 3

Open & Trust

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Natalie Stoemmer
Dec 27, 2024
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To open is to risk; to trust is to leap. These are acts of courage, particularly in a world that conditions us to close ourselves off for protection. Tonight, we begin the delicate work of softening the armor that surrounds our hearts and opening to the wisdom of connection—to ancestors, to inner knowing, to the threads of the unseen world.

To open is not to submit; it is to extend yourself outward, grounded in self-knowledge. Trust, then, is not blind faith, but an act of deliberate courage. As adrienne maree brown reminds us, “What you practice grows stronger.” Tonight, we practice the strength of vulnerability and the art of trusting the unknown.

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