Amorization — Love Becoming Among Us
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:
“The Spiritual Practice of Community”
Becoming in Love as the Heart of Evolution
ICN Living Lineages Series – Beloved Community
There are many ways that we practice community, some of which we will explore throughout this series on Beloved Community. For our Becoming offering this week, rather than any one specific practice, we will set forth a new overarching and undergirding “container” which is both the source and the structure of all our spiritual and evolutionary becomings.
Unfortunately, despite its ubiquity, the term “spiritual practice” is severely limited, for the very meaning of practice undermines the lived reality of participatory spirituality. We are not practicing for anything, for all of life is the real thing. And we don’t just “practice” in set times of spiritual engagement and then go out and live—everything we do and every moment of being is our spirituality. The beneficial meaning the word conveys is related to repetition and dedication, but make no mistake, there is nothing separate we are practicing for. We are on the field of play all the time.
So even while we will use the term “practice community” throughout this series, what we’re really after is something far more fundamental and vastly more encompassing. Not to mention entirely more inspiring.
Amorization – The Dynamism of Our Greatest Commandment
“I saw the Universe becoming amorized and personalized in the very dynamism of its own evolution.”
– Teilhard de Chardin
If the word “Amorization” is unfamiliar to you, don’t be surprised. Teilhard de Chardin first brought it forth in French, drawing upon the Latin “amor,” love. It is a word Teilhard came to late in his life’s work, probably in an effort to find a way to really convey the dynamic process of the universe becoming in and through love.
In ICN, we call this Loving Evolution, but amorization carries a potency and dynamism that reflects the participatory nature of this process we can all actively be a part of, consciously. In truth, all of our Becoming practices and processes are at their heart, ways of engaging in amorization.
This is much more than semantics or a fancy new word. It is a way of calling upon the core motivation and prime energy of our spiritual dedication. For all that we do, all that we engage with in what we call “spiritual practice” is for the purpose of love.
As Jesus gave us our greatest commandments,
“You shall love the Lord your God out of the whole of your heart and in the whole of your soul and in the whole of your strength and in the whole of your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27 (trans. David Bentley Hart)
In ICN, through our living lineage of integral, mystical Christianity, we seek to inhabit this primary calling to embody love for God and others. And as we know and experience God not as a distant, separate entity, but rather in the faces of God-Being-Us, God-Beside-Us, and God-Beyond-Us, the forms and expressions of how we love God and others are multiple and all around us. Indeed, even, within us. And always becoming more and more.
Using the term amorization to describe this might help us by,
Evoking a dynamism of divine love missing in our familiar associations and connotations of the simple and powerful word “love” itself.
Conveying that loving God and others is an energetic process of continual becoming that goes deeper than just behavior.
Naming a way of life oriented around the growth of love as a living, vitalizing force within and between us.
Why do we meditate? Why do we pray? Why do we seek to evolve in consciousness? Why do we engage with any act of spiritual practice or process in the first place?
Though well-being, peace of mind, greater fulfilment, and other personal benefits may come from our spirituality, it is love that we draw upon and step into for our meaning, purpose, and deepest value.
This is love, not as an external imperative, but a wellspring of vitality. Not something we seek, but the marrow of our bones, the fiber of our strength, the DNA of our being.
And love cannot be without relationality.
Relationality brings us into living community. A great and vast community with ourselves, one another, and the entire cosmos—divine, human, and material reality together.
So as we “practice community,” we are engaging in the work and play of love becoming, shaping us and the world into the divine mold of a more loving future. Evolutionary transformations of self, communities, and the world.
As we have explored in these “Becoming” offerings, this rhythm of evolution flows forth in many streams—living pathways through which we cultivate our capacity to embody, express, and co-create love in the world. As we engage and flow through these streams together, we are moving in the confluence of deeper communion, life to the full, and more conscious participation in the ongoing becoming of Christ in and among us.
Our Becoming as Amorization
Ilia Delio describes Amorization as the universe building itself up in love. This is not the abstract machinations of unconscious biology, but a personal process we can consciously choose to actively participate in.
As she describes it,
“Amorization is a process of centeredness by which the center of one’s personhood becomes more authentic in love through union. Hence, amorization is growth in consciousness and depth of being.”
In “practicing” community, we are engaging in the very work of evolution itself—which is to inhabit love in living relationship, to grow in our capacity to embody love and to deepen in our being, which is communal.
Again, we have and will continue to explore many of these streams and pathways of becoming, the unfolding shapes of our practices of amorization.
And, at the same time, crucially, the becoming of amorization is not only something we do, but is also acted upon us constantly and graciously. The great force of divine love is living and moving in this world in untold and unseen ways, encompassing and undergirding every single thing and every single moment.
The universe is building itself up in love. And while we have the joy and privilege to participate in our small and crucial ways of this becoming in and through us, we are also graced with the gift and delight of it all being so much bigger than us. And yet, not totally beyond us.
We are invited into this great, immense love becoming.
We are called to evolve, transform, and grow love ever more.
We are graced to give, support, and serve in the fullness of love, all throughout our lives in any and every place we are.
In the great scope of this beautiful, divine calling known as life,
here we are.
Here, love is.
Here, love is becoming, even more.
“Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of cosmic forces.”
– Teilhard de Chardin
Amorization is a new way of looking at our “spiritual practice.”
It isn’t about adopting a single practice or having a particular experience. It’s about entering a way of life oriented around the growth of love as a living, energizing force within and between us. The forms we engage—whether silence, dialogue, creativity, or shared presence—are all ways of participating in this deeper movement, cultivating our capacity to embody and express love more fully over time.
Commitment action step:
All of our “spiritual practice” is of, by, and for love.
How might you further embrace love as a core or fundamental part of your spiritual practice?
How do you live this with others?
How might you commit to amorization today?
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