Braving the Wilderness
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Tonight is our last call of 2020. What a year it has been.
Like I said last week, tonight we will be reflecting on Brené Brown’s podcast episode: Strong Backs, Soft Fronts, and Wild Hearts.
Brené says that a wild heart can straddle the tension of staying awake to the struggle, to what is challenging, to the work of justice. While also cultivating its own moments of joy.
She asks whether we are willing to show up and be seen when we can’t control the outcome? Because that is true vulnerability. And we know that we have been conditioned into a cultural masculinity that is terrified of being vulnerable.
However, to brave the wilderness we must dare to stand alone, brave criticism, fear and hurt. Not because we are called to be the lone wolf. But because truth will often demand courage. Because this is what it means to stand for change.
She invites us to “know the freedom of belonging everywhere but nowhere at all. She says that Maya Angelou calls this real belonging. And the price is high but the reward is great.
The best part of our masculinity is the part that becomes awake and alert when we hear these words. Let’s brave this wilderness together.