We Are Being Released
This week’s rhythm of loving evolution: Being
From the sacred beckoning of spirit and through our divine becoming, we embrace and inhabit new and deepening ways of being.
Here and now, we offer and respond to invitations to inhabit our divine being in conscious and spacious ways.
We make space for being who we are becoming, who we truly are, who we are now.
We rest in abiding within our holy communion, our Christ union with all things.
And we open up to new and deepening habits, the in-habiting of new ways of being that authentically reflect the beauty, truth, and goodness of who we have become in our transformative work and in the grace of the mystical body of Christ.
We hold all of these rhythms of being in the field of belonging.
In support of our rhythms of evolution—Beckoning, Becoming, and Being—you are also invited to participate in a new gathering called WeEvolve, on Fridays at 10 am Central Time.
This week’s WeEvolve gathering will be a spacious, communal time of Being together.
If you’re not already on the Mystical Garden, our online community page, click here to join
If you haven’t yet engaged with the Beckoning & Becoming offerings, we encourage you to explore those first:
Receiving Release
From the beckoning of our invitation to holistic repentance, personally and collectively, we have entered into the creative act of becoming, practicing metanoia.
Now, we are invited from the truth of our deepest being to receive the gift of being released, through no act or power of our own. We are offered the freedom to be in the release that has already been made true.
In our movements of being: release, embrace, inhabit—the movement of release is both something we choose and step into, as well as something that is offered to us.
Just as we choose our turning in repentance and release the grip to let go of that which we have held onto too long, in error, or in fear—so too can we see and feel the act of release as the disempowering of that which has held onto us.
That which has bound us no longer holds.
The cords that were wrapped around us have been untied.
The skin that once covered, protected, and confined us is falling off, shedding because of our growth.
The flow that was blocked settles, widening and deepening, finding a new opening to release through.
We have been released and freed to simply be who we have become, who we truly are already, now.
Loosen the Cords that Bind Us
One rendering of a line in the Lord’s Prayer, based on the original Aramaic language, says,
“Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt.”
As we have been stepping out of repentance based on shame and guilt, we might recognize how the cords of mistakes referred to here aren’t necessarily referring only to our own mistakes. Rather, we might see how the cords of others’ mistakes have bound us—just as we may hold the strands on others.
In the relational process of repentance, we may come into a greater freedom of being through the prayer of release. That we may be released from the knots and entanglements, the bindings and attachments that have been fastened to us.
In the spirit of Christianity repenting, might we welcome the freedom of release from any previous ties and constrictions that once held us? We pray release from ways we have been bound by religious systems, by abusive situations, by manipulation, coercion, tribalism, and authoritarianism.
We are being released from these old cords that once bound us. They no longer hold power over us. They are tied no more. We are being unhooked from the fastenings that once held us bound and confined.
We are being released
Shedding Old Skins
Another way of release comes about from the authentic inhabiting of our being as we grow, exemplified through the process of shedding old skin.
This is a natural release. It comes from our growth and becoming more than who we were before. What used to hold us, protect us, enclose us has become too small. We don’t make it happen, it simply begins because it is time.
We may find we begin to recognize when a shedding is coming. Perhaps the old skin begins to itch. Or we start to feel a constriction, a drying out, or the first few cracks beginning to split. If we aren’t aware and ready for such a change, it might frighten or worry us. Our new skin, just starting to emerge, will be tender.
Yet, as we trust the process of growth and the release it brings, we find a new freedom. An ease and spaciousness where we can breathe more fully and more freely.
We are being released from the old skins, outgrowing what used to serve and protect us, but is now too small for who we have become. The shedding has come. The old falls away. Our new being is revealed.
We are being released
The Path of Water
Sometimes in the flow of life, the pathway becomes blocked. The water is dammed up. The way through is denied.
There are times when we push through. We find a way to break the blockage and keep going. And there are times when the path of water receives the resistance as an invitation.
Rather than try to break through the dam, the path becomes a pool. The way stills the flow and backfills, spreading over the land in a way that nurtures life in new ways.
We find in the greater stillness a different energy of being. A restful and deepening place of enfolding. A pool of healing and forgiveness rises up, soaking us in peaceful rest and gentle holding.
And when the filling is enough, a new pathway emerges. The release comes again in a new place and in a new way.
We are being released into the natural way of the flow of life and spirit. Free to slow, to rest, to deepen rather than trying to break through. Receiving the gift of stillness. Opening to a new way. Released to move again in the right and ready time and place.
We are being released
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