Living With Uncertainty [Online]
With Eily Marlow and Kiely Todd Roska
June 24, 2020
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Our new reality is requiring us to awaken to the precariousness of life. In times of uncertainty, we crave answers. Instead, we are being forced to learn to live with ongoing ambiguity. Yet this moment gives us an opportunity to ask better questions about who we want to become. Come and share how you are holding uncertainty, what you are learning, and what you hope to carry forward into the next phase of your life. We will explore how we might hold steadfastly to our values while also becoming more flexible about how those values are lived out. Through prayerful practice, writing and small group conversation we will explore what each of us can learn about ourselves and the world we want to live into.
This class will take place online via Zoom.
About the Leaders
Eily Marlow
Eily Marlow serves as the Program Associate for Vocation and Reflection in the Center for Civic Engagement at Macalester College. She enjoys working with people as they discover how their values and convictions inform their actions in the world. She understands vocational discernment as both a personal and communal activity and believes listening to and sharing life […]
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Kiely Todd Roska is a former Associate Director of the Benedictine Center. Kiely holds an M.A. in Religion and Theology (United Theological Seminary) as well as a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She has worked in faith-based nonprofit and congregational settings for over 20 years. Kiely […]
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