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.
From our beckoning to practice community and the evolutionary becoming that occurs through the great force of love–amorization–we now come to our rhythm of being.
Read MoreAs we continue to release our self-referentialism and separateness, we have been embracing several qualities of divine communion offered in our Becoming invitation last week.
And now, how might we inhabit these communal ways of being even more?
In support of our daily, any-and-every-moment inhabiting of our communal being, we offer a simple process you might take up this week.
Each morning and each evening, you can be with each of these qualities, holding the intention and recognition of your/our living inhabitation in divine communion. You may want to choose one quality for the day, or all of them each day.
The phrasing offered below is suggestive. You are welcome to craft your own language, choosing how you want to attune and engage with your pathways of inhabiting.
If you made a commitment last week, you could consider how you might interweave that into this daily process.
Read MoreThis week, Beth Biery shares about her origin story of divine vocation, while also inviting all of us into deeper inhabiting, abiding in Origin, and Being our stories as we are living them now.
Read MoreFrom the single self, we might now welcome more fully the divine vocation of our communal being. Drawing upon the communal well of being. Finding our well-being in the reality of divine communion, which too is the fundamental truth of who we truly are. Who we truly are.
Read MoreIn this Christophany advent and Christmas, we have engaged in the process of the birth of God-Being-Us. This brings us into a Christmas that is not solely about celebrating the birth of Jesus two thousand years ago. We enter a celebration as well of the ongoing and eternal birth of Christ.
Richard Rohr speaks well to this distinction,
“The historical Jesus was one man, and Christ is not his last name. The Christ includes the whole sweep of creation and history joined with him—and us too. We call this the Cosmic Christ. We ourselves are members of the Body of Christ and the Cosmic Christ, even though we are not the historical Jesus.”
Christophany is all about this “and us too.”
Read MoreAs we approach the end of this advent season, the time for birth draws near.
The birthing of our Christophanies is eternal and particular, always ongoing and right here, right now.
We have said yes to the life divine, and the human life we live each day. We are rooted and sourced in the heritage of God, and so the life we bring forth is also divine. Here and now, in this time and place, in the particular incarnations we are. Life begets life.
In this advent of Being, from the life and energy of divine vitality, Christophany takes its form and shape in and through us. Even and particularly in the singular form of you. Yes, you.
Read MoreThe divine life does not come to take over, cast aside, or banish our humanity. Our human personhood is not a fallen nature, an overriding ego, nor a shrouded veil. The human life we are given is the palpable substance of the Really Real, the exquisite space and time in which we are bestowed the gift of being in our pointed particularity, our precious personhood.
Following the yes of “let it be done unto me,” we are offered the chance to say yes to “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Read MoreBoth 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.
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