Both the gospels of Matthew and Luke trace Jesus’ lineage. They give different records, which has caused some consternation in trying to account for the discrepancy. While outlining the biological line of Jesus most likely served different purposes for the authors of these gospels, for our focus here we will consider the heritage of divine vitality in the mystical lineage of Christ—all the way down to us.
Read MoreDivine Vitality is the primary energetic of this advent, this arrival of the divine being born anew in the most elemental substance of matter itself. It suffuses and grows into many shapes and forms, each as expressions of Christ. And even in ourselves we can inhabit, bear, and bring forth expressions of Christ in and from our very being—charged with the energy of God, the vibratory light of Christ permeating and illuminating our embodied presence as divine creation.
Do we believe it?
Do we feel it?
Can we welcome it?
Can we be here with it in the annunciation of the gift of our divine being within?
Might we consent to receiving this conception of Christ in us too?
The beckoning to divine vitality is an invitation to welcome the experiential inhabiting of a reality that already is present. It is already here. You are already living in divine vitality right this very moment.
Our human vitality subsists and sustains us so long as we are alive and breathing, yet there are times when we feel more alive. We have the experience of vitality charging and energizing our sense of being alive. Perhaps you’ve felt this in the midst of the beauty of nature, or in a precious moment in relationship with a loved one. Or we maybe have felt it in the midst of great pain—the strength of our will to live, even if small and covered over by suffering. The birth of a child is charged with vitality, and often experienced in the vividness of pain and joy. So too in the sacred moment of death.
Read MoreAs we move through our evolving journey, we come into our being made new. The old has fallen away and we have been released. The new has come and is still unfolding before us.
This week, we focus on the movement of embrace. While this is often about welcoming what is emerging and coming forth anew, it crucially also includes embracing previous aspects of our true being that have been lost, scattered, or forgotten.
This is the integration that comes after differentiation, recovering and including the genuine elements of our being that are still vital and essential to who we truly are, but have become subsumed or displaced in some way.
As the old saying goes, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
Read MoreFrom the beckoning of our invitation to holistic repentance, personally and collectively, we have entered into the creative act of becoming, practicing metanoia.
Now, we are invited from the truth of our deepest being to receive the gift of being released, through no act or power of our own. We are offered the freedom to be in the release that has already been made true.
In our movements of being: release, embrace, inhabit—the movement of release is both something we choose and step into, as well as something that is offered to us.
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