Cadre Today - Thin Space

Good morning, Cadre. How are you? How are you doing? I hope you are great. If you're not, that is okay, too. Want to remind you that I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know the things that I know. And, Jules, I care about you. Put all those pieces together and we come to this place again, or we come to this place for the first time, or if you want to kick it up to the next level, you remember that every single time you come here, even though it may be your first or your millionth time, it's your only your first time that you're here now.

And that may sound a little bit like, you know, the troll under the bridge who has three questions, but no, there's. There's a secret to life when we look at the fact that we only do each moment one time. So we could be courageous in thinking that we're prepared and risk to say, I know some things, which is a really good thing to do. Or we could be curious and go, gosh, I know that I've been to a similar moment in my life before, but this one may be different. That's a great thing to do as well.

That's why on Sunday mornings, we spend time in the thin space, the space in between everything that has been and everything that will be, between the things that we know and the things that we don't know. That's what we're going to talk a little bit today, the thin space between the things that we do know and the things that we don't know. I'll tell you, anytime I hear someone speaking as if they have the answer, I get really nervous. Anytime I hear someone who goes, this is the thing to know, I get nervous.

Not for me, but for them. And not in a scary way, but because I care. We know that anytime we get too close to the clouds or too close to the sun that we end up missing out on something the second that we think we know. The thing is, the second we stop being in that sweet space of learning and growing and knowing and asking and being incredibly vulnerable and incredibly intensely connected to the loudness of every moment. So what is that thin space in between the things you do know and the things you don't know?

I like to think the evidence of that space is when you can say, you know, I don't know, with that type of tone. Sometimes not knowing is something that we're trained to run away from. You know, people are supposed to lead. People are supposed to have the answers. People are supposed to gut it out and go get it and fight and do the thing. And sometimes that is very true and very necessary. But it leads to us saying I don't know with hesitation or with disdain. Being able to say I don't know with joy and excitement is the evidence of the space in between the things we do know and the things we don't know.

So today I invite you to find something, some topic, some space, some experience where you go, I don't know what's going to happen right now with that type of smirk on your face, with that type of excitement and anticipation in your voice. Because that thin space is going to be one where you find something you didn't know you were looking for. For example, yesterday morning you maybe saw that I live streamed from the start line of the twin cities marathon 5k. A little bit of backstory. I'm a 40 time marathoner, but I haven't ran a mile since August of 2020 or since April of 2024.

My body has been going through some stuff that has led me to not not be able to run with joy or in a healthy way. So I haven't. I went from my 40th marathon to not running a mile for 18 months. But yesterday I was raising money for Second Harvest Heartland and as a part of their Twin Cities Marathon weekend team. And along with that I got signed up for the 5K as part of my fundraising efforts and I was going to go to the start line and move through the course with my friend Mickey. And I was like, yeah, I don't know if this is going to be a walk.

I don't know if this is going to be a start and a not finish with joy. 1 miles yesterday. It's not a wow way to go. No, but what it is is, it is a I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know what my body was going to say, hey, this is healthy and joy filled. So do it. And I'll tell you, it was a memorable moment. Those 35 minutes out there. Can you find that space today? 1% better says I'm living in thin space for the next nine days. Wish me well. I will, my friend. And then when you get back from those nine days, I'll wish that you find those moments of thin space in the 10th and the 11th and every, every day following.

But how beautiful that you get to swim in the well of of thin space for elongated amount of time. One percent better. Jules. Everybody else who's listening in later. I hope you have a good one. Find that space in between the things you know and the things you don't know. We'll talk to you later.