Kufunda Practice: TRUST

Here follows another recording of one of our Kufunda core practices.

How is Trust a practice? I think it is something we live into. Through living through multiple levels of collapse over the past decades, and living through it in community, we are learning that we can fundamentally trust life, even in the darkness.

I hope you will enjoy this reflection,

Maaianne

Transcript.

Simple Kufunda truths.

I think there's something about trust. I think there's something about fundamental trust in the movement of life and community and each other that is a nourishment for us, a strength.

Maybe it's a trust that's born out of living with the cycles of the land that everything dries up and it dies. And yet, you know, you know that the rains will return. You know that the rains will return and life will come back, and things will grow. And I know that we live in a time where that may get increasingly hard to sustain that trust, living in a time when there's a real fear, rightfully so, that we might be Moving to our limits. And that is not simple matter of cycles where life follows death. Hello, I'm walking through the village as I speak.

This trust, I think, is part of our life blood, part of what sustains us, even when we have lived through collapse, bye, bye. Live through suffering. We have lived through multiple levels and layers of collapse, and yet each day, the sun still rises, and each season, the rains still fall, and we find our way as community, as village, as human with nature, we continue to find our way, and that's good enough, and the bedrock of that becomes a deepening level of trust, I guess the other word for trust is faith, and so maybe we are living a practice of faith in which we are active participants and contributors, but we live it, and it holds us and enables us to keep rising above the challenges. Thank you for listening.