Living from Eternal Origin
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 article informing these processes:
“Our Eternal Origin Story”
Lenten Journey with your Divine Story
During this Lenten season, we’re inviting a journey into the divine story. The divine story is not something we read in a book, but one we live every day. It is not just about Jesus, but Christ living in us. It is about our true Origin and our Eternal Life coming into the here and now.
This week, we invite you into practices of connecting with and living from our Eternal Origin story.
An Eternal Examen Practice
The practice of Examen is an ancient Ignatian prayer technique of reflection on the events of your day. Usually, before going to bed, you look back at times you experienced God’s presence and/or moments of gratitude.
For an “Eternal” way of examen, how might we not only look back, but also look THROUGH, as we were invited in the Beckoning writing:
“How might we tell our story from Eternal Origin? To start, we might reorient from looking back, to more consciously looking through.”
To seeing the deeper pattern and shining through of Christ in our lives unbound by or to the past.
End of Day Meditation/Prayer Focus
We may want to first consciously connect to and presence the ongoing and ever-present Source of all life, like an unceasing wellspring always flowing into all things. This divine font continuously creates us in each moment. It is the eternal flow of divine vitality interwoven with our finite human vitality throughout our lifespan. Jesus, in his Christ nature, embodied the fullness of this interwoven divine/human being in his lifetime, in his death and resurrection, and eternally—beyond and through all time.
As we make this divine, mystical dimension of our Christ being more conscious and more present in our human experience, we can come to live from this Eternal Origin in our day-to-day and moment-to-moment reality.
Eternal Moments
What can we now notice of our day, where the Really Real irrupted into the ordinary?
When the eternal suffused or is suffusing the temporal?
What were the glimmers of the eternal we now recognize and can be with?
Pause for reflection
Be with these moments that arise in our memory not just as past occurrences from our day, but living too in this moment now.
The Eternal Now
How or what can I invite of the infinite into the finite here and now?
Is it simply being again in my awareness with a smell of this day, a scene, a touch?
Did that happen with music, a conversation, an interaction with another, an intuition today?
Pause to look through
Welcome these glimmers, these moments of connection to the Eternal Source, living through time. Welcome moments half-remembered or even beyond a specific moment in time. Welcome the inbreaking to permeate as you sleep, and your day tomorrow, even as, indeed, they already have.
Origin-al Union
When you’re ready, release your mind from its reflection, from its seeing, and simply be with all that already is, has been, and will be.
It can support us to place a hand on our heart and another on our womb space to support alignment and connection. Even a minute or two can be revelatory.
From deeper space,
Welcome the always shining light of divine union.
Breathe the fullness of divine and human, interwoven, inhaling and exhaling.
Be in the flow of greater participation beyond your single self.
I can be with this, here and now, and I can offer it to a larger holding. Even the disturbing events of today are free to be in the larger field, allowing them to settle into their place or to release them from my own tending…to share the burden, to unburden, to put it down for now to rest.
For deeper peace and simple engagement, you may just want to repeat as you fall asleep…
I am participating in the divine nature.
We are participating in the divine nature.
Ready for sleep. Ready to sing the song of love in the world tomorrow.
Sweet dreams!
Eternal Origin in Community
Inhabiting and experiencing eternal time beyond momentary glimmers takes embodied, conscious processes of awareness opening and communal sensing.
We are far more likely to experience eternal moments when we are sharing deep space and presence with others, because our unified nature is more closely and keenly present in the “We.”
Union becomes personal through the communal song and dance of interbeing, as realized together.
Singing as the Christophany Choir
“I need you. You need me. We are all a part of God’s body.”
Hezekiah Walker made it a practice of engaging communities with this mantra through the song I Need You to Survive. I (Beth) have had the privilege of singing this in community in person, gazing upon one another and holding hands. We can even inhabit this interbeing through meditation, online in WeSpace, like often we do at our Sunday Gatherings in ICN.
We can also enter this communal song even when we are “by ourselves.”
You may wish to find a chant or a song with a phrase or mantra that especially speaks to you. As you play the song, sing along or listen deeply to the words.
Bring to mind and heart a specific person, group, or community of people.
As a way of participating in time-freedom, sing with them, even as they aren’t present now.
Let your song of the Christophany choir be a movement of mystical interbeing, participating in the connection of our eternal communion, which is not bound by time or space.
Creative Engagement
Perhaps you are feeling more creative and less bound by words or sound. How might you engage the eternal and the temporal here and now, consciously intertwining kairos and chronos?
Draw an infinity symbol, and trace it. With your finger? With your feet? Walking in nature?
How might you draw up from the earth and release back to her?
Could you simply drink from the cup and be with the felt sense of receptivity, nourishment, life?
Stargazing may be a “glimpse” possibility for you this evening.
Will you post more possibilities and your own experiences on the Mystical Garden ICN Community page?
We need one another.
For we are not separate, individual stories of Christ.
We are, together, the children of God amidst the great family of God.
Statement of WeCreating Authorship
This article was WeCreated with authoring by Beth Biery and editing support by Luke Healy.
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.”
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