Stepping into Trust
ICN Living Lineages Series – Beloved Community
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:
Holistic Trust with “The Other”
Deepening trust opens the door to post-tribal community rooted in the field of love. It is from this ground of trust that we can walk together in companionship and entanglement, which is our third quality of divine communion in living community.
We find the trust to walk together through the storms and the deserts, the hard times and the joyful moments, the struggle, the mundane, the precious.
And we move into deeper trust with each step. The trust to both walk alongside and to be entangled—that is, to accept more and more the entanglement that already is. Our self-referentialism rooted in isolation withers more and more. We release the ways we used to withdraw or deny, step back or step away because we were acting out of the forces of disconnection, even if we didn’t know it consciously. The habits of old ways of being, grown out of fear, suspicion, and separation, wilt away.
We find, as we walk, greater resilience with each step. And this arrives in part because it is not just with one another that we are entangled and companioned. We walk from our interwoven, interconnection with the ground of trust itself.
This is our cosmotheandric beloved community, incorporating and re-membering our integrated totality with the seamless fabric of all reality. The divine and human undivided from the material. The earth itself touching into the soles of our feet and the marrow of our bones with the undercurrent of wholeness, the “underflow” of life itself, beneath and through all things.
It is upon and from this ground of trust we walk. From the fabric of the very substance of matter we draw strength. We find our grounding force. Our rooted power to walk deeply through this life, not alone, but into ever-greater companionship and community, entangled amidst the great communion of unified reality flowing into us, into this relationship, this situation, this lived, breathed, and present community here and now.
We find, as we walk, greater fortitude with each step.
We feel, as we walk, rooted in trust more and more.
We sense, as we walk with open hearts, the strength growing in our back and spine.
Trust compels us to walk.
We walk from the ground of trust itself.
Into greater trust we walk.
We get there one step at a time.
The Ground of Trust
We offer this guided practice to aid in our process of deepening more into holistic trust:
Steps of Trust –
Inquiries for Practicing Community
Stepping out of the Forces of Disconnection
It may be that the next step for you, for us, is out of the forces of disconnection.
The forces of disconnection are so strong in our world today.
It’s easy for our roots, our sourcing of energy, to become tainted.
It may feel like righteous anger, like holy protection, like justified grief or reasonable fear.
And there may even be truth to those feelings.
Yet, this is a step out of that which is rooted in the lesser stories;
the broken trust in systems, figures, and specific relationships;
the self-referential defenses and impulses to “other” one another.
The “othering” that not only keeps us apart from each other, but from ourselves as well.
From the ground of trust, where are you being invited to take a step out of the forces of disconnection that are present in your life right now?
Stepping into Vulnerability
It may be that the next step for you, for us, is into greater vulnerability.
This is a step into, for it is a choice to come closer.
It requires courage amidst the risk and uncertainty.
It takes faith and love in place of fear and the unknown.
Yet, we feel its allure,
arising from a deeper place of trust.
From the ground of trust, where are you being invited to take a step into greater vulnerability?
Stepping toward with a Healthy Boundary
It may be that the next step for you, for us, is toward with a healthy boundary.
Setting a healthy boundary is a step toward, not away.
It shows respect for the other to affirm their sovereignty,
even if their choice is to not trust, to not turn toward, to not stay with.
In the difficulty of separation, we make space for deeper truth.
In the pain of the loss, we look to a deeper trust.
That even the struggle and tension may be the very portal necessary to death and resurrection?
In this life or the next.
From the ground of trust, where are you being invited to take a step toward by setting or reaffirming a healthy boundary, held with clarity and love?
Open Steps – the Dance of Trust
It may be that you and we don’t know the next step before us.
In the unknowing and the mystery of this dance of life in community, do we still have trust?
Can we trust in the dance of trust even if we don’t know the steps?
Even if we can’t see the way forward?
Even if we aren’t sure?
We will choose to enter into our mutuality from the root of deep connection.
From the radical trust of our interbeing.
With the faith in our ultimate wholeness.
Free to step forward,
or to step back.
Trusting ourselves and one another.
And trusting the deeper ground holding us all,
permeating all in the web of interconnection,
entangled and companioned,
seeking healthy and effusive mutuality,
longing for communal resonance,
And dancing with open hands
together
upon the ground of trust.
What do you know from the ground of trust now?
Beloved Community flourishes through healthy and effusive mutuality, as we release self-referentialism, embrace precious personhood, and inhabit deeper connectedness with holistic trust.
Steps of Trust – Inquiries for Practicing Community
Stepping out of the Forces of Disconnection
Stepping into Vulnerability
Stepping toward with a Healthy Boundary
Open Steps – the Dance of Trust
What do you know from the ground of trust now?
Perhaps throughout the week, you might revisit each of these possibilities, or land with one to attend more fully each and every day.
Statement of WeCreating Authorship
This article was WeCreated by Luke Healy and Beth Biery.
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