Pathways of WeCreating as the Living Body of Christ Now

A Beloved Community Embodying Divine Creativity Together

“If we were to attain our contemplative ideal of sharing in the divine life,
would we not be sharing in the activity of creating the universe?”

-Beatrice Bruteau

Living as Beloved Community, from the fullness of our divine communion, means that we will inhabit our vocation to be creators of new heaven and new earth. In ways great and small. In micro-moments and macro-movements. And everything in between.

Our divine vocation is to be bearers and bringers of the loving evolution of Christianity and the world.

So how do we actually do that? What does it look like?

As much as this might sound like a great aspirational vision for the future, it is also already coming forth here and now. ICN is one community of the creative enacting of loving evolution, one fractal of the living body of Christ at work in the world today, here and now. We have a long way to go and much to learn, but we are committed to our communal divine vocation, to be a flowing, creative community of healing, love, and transformative evolution in the midst of the world today.

This transformation is happening in the mystical dimensions of the realms of heaven all around us and inside us, as well as in the manifestations that take physical form in material reality on the earth. Loving evolution is emerging through our very own living bodies and through creative forms we are a part of bringing forth: community, offerings, and other shapes of the sacred work and presence we create in the world.

This week, we share some of the specific pathways of embodying Christ that are present and emerging in ICN, and some still to come.

Some of these pathways you may be helping WeCreate.

Some pathways may beckon you to participate in more fully.

We invite you to discern how you may be feeling called into WeCreating in the communal life of ICN.

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Our Foundational Communal Path: Abiding in Who We Truly Are Together

The primary way that we become creators of new heaven and new earth is by deeply abiding in who we truly are—our divine being: manifest personally, communally, and cosmically—together. Bringing our divine identity, through our humanity, into community is the core gathering impulse of ICN.

Our whole being, our whole lives, are rooted in the divine essence of our core and fundamental union and communion with/as God. God-Being-Us, the light in me dancing with the light in you, God-Beside-Us, immersed in the total reality of God-Beyond-Us, suffusing us in the full, communal body of Christ we are.

Abiding in our divine essence is not the end point of the spiritual journey, but the mystical—that is, holistic—ground we walk upon wherever we go and wherever we are. Realizing, awakening to, or even simply accepting the truth of this reality is a vital and central step in our spiritual lives, our way of being in the world, our presence in any and every moment.

WeCreating is not necessarily a project to be undertaken; it is also a way of being in the world that brings forth life, life to the full. We have called this divine vitality.

This may be your pathway of WeCreating now—and it is in and of itself a full, complete expression of creative manifestation in the world—the presence of God in and among you, and us. Our being in Beloved Community, at home in who we truly are.

WeCreating Invitation

You are graciously invited
to simply abide and rest in this reality
without have to do anything
or go anywhere
or be anyone else
than who you are,
who we are,
who all is.

The Path of Transformation: Becoming Who We Are Meant to Be

ICN seeks to be an evolutionary community. That does not simply mean that we change over time. It means that we intentionally and explicitly seek to cultivate, participate, and actuate the loving evolution of ourselves, one another, and the world—the I, the We, and the All.

This is a path of engagement in the transformation of our consciousness, born out of the various roots of integral tradition and a holistic Christian mysticism. These are the core Living Lineages of ICN: Mystical, Christian, Integral, and what we have been focusing on most recently, Beloved Community.

All of these main threads—and many other smaller ones—are woven into an integrative sourcing that informs our approach to conscious evolution and loving transformation. This includes but is so much more than our spiritual practice. It is devotion to the divine work and play of the dynamic process of the universe becoming in and through love. We have called this amorization.

If you’re reading this, then there are probably ways that you are already actively participating in personal and communal processes and spiritual practices. As we step into WeCreating, we may feel the pull toward a deeper focus or a draw to a specific area of new dedication—personally and communally. This will come less out of a sense of obligation but a deeper motivation arising from the charge of divine inspiration.

This is an enlivening invitation, even if it may feel challenging or demanding to our smaller self. As we welcome the divine summoning, we are moving into an intensification of our deep devotion to God. Dedication to God-Being-Us coming forth more and more, committed with God-Beside-Us and all of those in communion partaking in loving evolution, aspiring together into the God-Beyond-Us who encompasses us all and in whom we are comprised—the universe dynamically amorizing into greater wholeness.

WeCreating Invitation

You are graciously invited
to the inner and communal guidance
of loving transformation
becoming in you, in us, in all.

As we welcome the beautiful and challenging
amorization
of ourselves and one another
more and more,

What present or new commitment
is here for you now? 

How are you inspired to
participate
cultivate
and WeCreate
 loving evolution and deep transformation? 

As you are drawn,
we ask you to follow how spirit is guiding you
to this sacred devotion in ICN.

Perhaps there is one person,
one relationship,
one area held in community
drawing you. 

Can you commit to taking the next step,
whatever that might look like for you today?

The Path of Divine Creativity: Beckoning to How We Are Called to Live

From the deep abiding in who we truly are together, and through the transformative processes that support us in becoming who we are meant to be, we may then feel the beckoning to how we are called to live today and tomorrow.

Certainly, this takes as many forms and shapes as there are people who open to this divine beckoning. It is more than a career path, a spiritual life, or a higher purpose. It is our incarnated, divine vocation to inhabit ever more fully our creative power and life-giving capacity to be creators of the new heaven and new earth, here and now.

We can dwell in this reality by showing up in any and every moment, bearing divine presence. Expressing beauty, goodness, truth, and love uniquely upon the canvas of our daily lives. We are all beckoned to live more consciously into this divine creativity—radiating, amplifying, and proliferating through our very presence and being in the world.

And, we also at times feel a specific beckoning and calling arising from the Source of all creativity. Something guiding us with a specific creative allure. A call not just to self-expression or an exciting project, but into the very act of sacred future-making itself. Divine creativity expressing through you, a divine creator.

This is taking up the WeCreative call to be more than recipients of loving transformation and evolution, but growing up into our becoming conscious enactors.

We have called this our divine vocation—both the every-day and every-moment expressions and the particularized callings to WeCreating the loving evolution of the future.

Part of what has been emerging in ICN in support of these personal and communal callings are forms of divine vocational discernment. As we listen, share, hone, support, and engage together, we affirm the necessary relational and communal dynamics essential to grow into this way of living.

And we are living into practicing our divine vocations through WeCreating together in community. Bringing our sacred offerings into form in our midst, offering one another “on-the-job training” as we enact together.

Our Christ Commission: Being filled with the fullness of God-Beyond-Us, coming into being—the ocean merging into the drop—God-Being-Us, together with all the saints, God-Beside-Us, in communion rooted and grounded in love, as nothing less than divine creators of new heaven and new earth.

WeCreating Invitation

You are graciously invited
to join the ICN WeCreating Village Hall
on Saturday, November 21st at 12pm Central

Click here to RSVP on the Mystical Garden

(if you’re not already a member, click here to join)
 

We’ll be sharing about and co-discovering ways WeCreating is emerging in our community,
and how each one of us can be a part
of bringing forth our deep inspirations, sacred passions, and divine vocations.

We discuss current and emerging forms, including:

• WeCreating in ICN Circles current & developing

• Touchstone Process of Divine Self-Identification

• Workshop(s) on Becoming WeCreators

• Divine Vocation Discernment Pods

At the heart of this gathering is the intention to grow our capacity for WeCreating,
to step more fully, each one of us, into this path of divine creativity, together.

Please join for this dedicated time of sacred exploration!

If you can’t make this day and time but still want to participate, you can still RSVP to have the recording sent to you afterwards.

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