What is Your/Our Divine Vocation?
This week’s rhythm of loving evolution: Becoming
We engage in processes of becoming to deepen the transformative work and play of evolution, participating in our growth from divine being, as God is beckoning us here and now.
The Becoming offerings below invite us into personal and communal deepening in our divine becoming. They can be practiced in WeSpace groups and our daily lives today and throughout the week ahead. Rather than one-time experiences, we encourage ongoing and repeated practice to better support our growth and evolution.
If you missed it last week, we encourage you first to read the Beckoning article informing these processes:
“Our Divine Vocation”
Discerning, Integrating, and Inhabiting Divine Vocation
In this series, we have been exploring our call to WeCreating, which is the invitation to step more fully into our participation in our divine nature—to be creators together of the future in loving evolution. This is also what we are calling the next phase of growth for ICN, moving from the Founding Stage to the WeCreating Stage.
The energy and capacity for this comes from our divine vitality, which is our essential life force enlivening us with the love that is the deep force of evolution. Our motivation and will then springs from a greater calling than our own desires, as we are filled with divine inspiration for sacred possibilities. Our divine vocation is then discerned, inhabited, and integrated more into our life as we better understand who we truly are and how that expresses and speaks from our deepest being.
Ways of discernment, integration, and inhabiting is our invitation of becoming this week.
Divine Vocation Mandala
From the sourcing of divine vitality and the well of divine inspiration, the splendor of divine vocation comes into expression. The emergence happens in community, for community…the embodiment of the “family business,” the Christophany choir. We have been engaging this communal exploration, WeCreating what divine vocation means for us individually and for ICN.
Perhaps you’ll pause here and now with us, resting in the invitation of this mandala.
Each of the phrases within this mandala come from last week’s writing, Our Divine Vocation, and are facets of the holistic mystical Really Real of vocation.
Visio Engagement
Engage and settle into whole body mystical awareness.
(For support in this awakening, you can practice with a guided recording)
When you are ready, gently gaze upon the mandala, allowing focus and attention to come and go as you are led, taking in more the shape, movement and beckoning. Be more with the energy you’re receiving than the language or concepts.
Perhaps you will end your practice here, journaling, drawing or simply resting.
In another sitting, or if you are so drawn now, explore what else the mandala may want to offer you.
Mantra Engagement
Allow your eyes to fall upon one of the phrases from the article last week. Breathe with the words, repeat them internally or even aloud. Repeat as a mantra perhaps, allowing the phrase to do its work within you.
You can “make a memory” of this experience, simply by asking your body to continue to open this in you, without any further effort on your part, and you can consciously return to this any time you like.
Communal Engagement
When your engagement with the mandala feels complete, you may want to consider sharing any emergence with one other person, to further embody this experience and how vocation may be calling you, forming within you, or being re-membered. WeSpace can be another place to share what is becoming in you through this practice.
Throughout Lent, we intend to welcome each phrase more fully into our shared field as we journey toward the tomb.
An Initial Survey of Evolving Archetypes of Divine Vocation
In seeking to discover, recognize, and name our divine vocation, we can engage in a process of personal and collective discernment.
First and foremost, it will be rooted in who we truly are, in our unique essence and communal interbeing. We feel and experience this from deep within, arising from our unified divine source, taking shape in the sacred qualities and core aspects of our soul. To further welcome, call forth, and inhabit this energy and essence is to invoke this from within.
We can also find forms, shapes, and pathways from the outside. These are the evocations that call to us with resonance. Their sound reverberates with what we know is true within, and can give us the tone or harmony we may be looking for inside us.
Rather than specific jobs, roles, or functions, our divine vocation will more likely find evocative resonance with more archetypal patterns and shapes. There are many classical archetypes, as well as newer expressions of evolving forms. Here, we’ll start by sharing three different sources for you to survey and explore what might resonate or call to you to consider as a helpful evocation.
Even if you feel you already have a sense of who you truly are in this way, perhaps some of these archetypes can evoke evolutions and integrations to further support your understanding and enaction.
A new podcast series by Annie Browning, The Great Unraveling and the Greater Emergence: Leadership for a World in Transition, offers a six-episode journey through five leadership archetypes. Grounded in science, wisdom traditions, consciousness theory, and practical tools, this offering may help you name and nurture the movements arising in you at this time.
▶️ Listen to the opening episode here
The five archetypes explored include:
Bridge Makers – Translators between polarized worlds who preserve truth without dilution
Threshold Guides – Facilitators of meaningful transitions when old maps no longer serve
Pathway Pioneers – Seers of emergent possibilities beyond current paradigms
Loving Disrupters – System-shifters who lead with fierce love rather than force
Hidden Architects – Builders of the unseen infrastructure for our emerging future
If these archetypes speak to you, we invite you to deepen your exploration through this Divine Vocation Discovery Aid, which links scripture and biblical figures to each archetype.
The folks at the Sacred Design Lab published a report several years ago called The Care of Souls. They identified seven essential roles for nurturing spiritual and communal well-being in today’s world. Together, they form a holistic ecosystem of care that supports both individual and collective transformation.
o Gatherer – Brings people together to create spaces of belonging and connection.
o Seer – Discerns deeper meaning and emerging spiritual insight.
o Maker – Crafts rituals, symbols, and creative expressions of shared values.
o Healer – Tends to emotional and spiritual wounds with compassion and care.
o Venturer – Experiments with new forms of community, practice, and leadership.
o Steward – Manages resources and structures to sustain communal life.
o Elder – Offers wisdom, perspective, and guidance rooted in experience.
If you feel so drawn, you can read the full report here.
Several years ago, we shared a series of articles on The Loving Evolution of Christianity and the World. This series focused on evolving systems and microsystem alternatives, and part five offered this diagram resource of changemaker roles:
The link to the original source is broken now, so rather than seeking to learn more about any of these roles by seeking more information, if a descriptor resonates, simply let it evoke a spark to explore more within. To see more of the context in which the graphic was original shared, you can read the full article here.
These archetypes, classifications, and roles can serve as an initial spark of discovery.
Perhaps one or two stood out to you that you feel drawn to explore further?
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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 communal practice time drawing upon the Becoming offerings from this week’s article.
Statement of WeCreating Authorship
This article was WeCreated with authoring by Luke Healy and Beth Biery.
All of the wisdom, creativity, and spiritual emergence in ICN comes from the communal field of wisdom and spirit speaking in and through the “We.”
All text in this article is human-authored without the use of AI, according to our AI policy: 0 out of 10
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