Nearly three years ago, the words restorative wisdom landed in my gut, unwilling to leave. I was sitting in a favorite coffee shop at the time -- Holy Grounds -- when I researched a URL site to see if it was available. It was. On a whim, or whimsy, I purchased the URL, "just in case someday I wanted to use it."
I've been steeping in established wisdom traditions for most of my life as a Protestant clergywoman and seminary professor. Then I needed non-sectarian communities to hold space while the deep wounds such traditions unconsciously or unintentionally inflict upon such a woman as myself could erupt in me, my body, my soul. I was angry for a long time, but overwhelmingly thankful for the communities whose missions were to create new spaces, hold open-space places, for human beings to gather differently than schools, government, churches/synagogues/mosques/temples.
Wisdom lives and breathes in both spaces, of course--established wisdom traditions with the practices and generations of saints, and non-sectarian, non-religious communities holding spaces for those of us who don't fit within the cathedrals anymore, but only sa
cred groves, healing wells, expansive oceans. RESTORATIVE WISDOM is the phrase for me that holds sacred/secular together into a ONEING PLACE.
I recognize Wisdom as a life-giving, freeing, and engaging force to be reckoned with, most easily discerned over time, in communities of practice, restoring to a chosen wholeness and eco-systemic well-being that has been fragmented and broken. I have been blessed to learn wisdom all around, within and beyond communities of practice I've known. This site and community aims for Wisdom that Restores. Restorative Wisdom.
What does "restorative wisdom" mean to you? Share a memory of a wisdom that restored you in some way... Springboard from a line above that sparks YOUR interest in sacred spaces of listening...