tripped into the bottom of things. And though

you died while I was in the air, I felt you push

your raft away from shore, felt the gentleness

of the water you so loved surround you, can feel

it now. I wanted so much to tell you of the sea I

found, the one that found me, to tell you how

I was asked to let go of all that defined me, including

you, in order to discover what matters.

Oh Dad, this descent into the heart where I

finally held your face in the hospital when

everyone went home—a deep part of who

you were left you to give me life, and I

gave it back to you, so you could die.

Questions to Walk With

QUESTIONS TO WALK WITH

•  In your journal, describe what it means to you to be humble. Tell the story of a time when life humbled you and what that experience opened.

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, discuss what it means to you to have a covenant with love. What does it mean to you to be loving, and what does that look like in how you live your days?

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe the simplest thing someone has ever done for you and how it touched you. Then, imagine the simplest thing you can do for someone in the days ahead.

•  In conversation with a friend or loved one, describe your favorite window: where it is, the first time you came upon it, why it is your favorite, and what it has shown you. Then describe the kind of window you are and what others might see through you.

•  In your journal, describe the things you need to make you more whole-hearted and more of a complete human being. Try to be specific and name the places you need to go, the people you need to meet, the experiences you need to have in order to encounter the things that might complete you.

•  We have traveled through great depths on this journey. In this final invitation, I invite you to explore—in your journal and then in conversation with a friend or loved one—one resource you need to gain strength from in order to endure suffering, as well as one aspect of your soul you need to be intimate with in order to approach wholeness, and one way that you are still here, still wondering.

The Bridge of Well-Being

THE BRIDGE OF WELL-BEING

Whether conscious of it or not, we are all engaged in the search for the unknown other who might complete us and join us to the Whole. Our longing to join and come alive is our birthright. And similar to pollination, we complete the world when, opening ourselves against great odds, some strange unknown partner inadvertently seeds our essence elsewhere.