The gospels tell the origin story of Jesus’ divine vocation. Along with the birth narrative and a few stories of his early life, the lineage of Jesus is given twice, tracing his human and divine heritage. All four gospels recount the story of Jesus’ baptism as a foundational experience in his calling. We have welcomed how “Being named” is a core aspect of vocare, and Jesus receives his mystically from a voice from heaven, “This is my son, the beloved, in whom I have delighted.”
This season of Lent echoes the 40 days in the desert Jesus spent following his baptism. These, and others, are significant events in the origin story of Jesus.
The gospel of John begins by adding another layer to the deeper origin of Jesus.
Do you know you have a Divine Vocation?
Yes, you. Every single one of us has it. It is the deepest calling of our lives.
Our hearing and understanding this deep, divine vocation is an ongoing process of discovery and discernment, which arises from the essence of who we truly are in our divine being, emerging more and more throughout our life.
When we come to discover and begin to inhabit the presence of God as intimately interwoven with our very own being, we recognize that just as God is not separate, neither is our source of motivation. Our will, so long held in either surrender or independence (and the tension between the two), can come into a deeper and harmonious integration.
We experience a deeper source of will rooted in the depths of our soul. It arises with holy longings and sacred charges—not necessarily in the traditional sense of what is “holy” and “sacred,” as all of the earth and any of our actions can be spiritually inspired. Everything is sacred, and this is ever more apparent as we welcome divine presence into more conscious engagement with any and all settings and situations.
Read MoreAfter all, God is love. And love is all you need, right?
But what if this longing isn’t for something or someone external to us—even God—but rather for something deeper within. A force and energy we need not search to find, for it is of our true essence. It comes rooted in our intrinsic value and present in our truest being. And yet, for so many, especially in this day and age, it is missing. It has been lost, covered over, denied, even forgotten.
It is our divine vitality.
And we need it desperately in this time, perhaps now more than ever.
Read MoreThe time has come now for us to evolve and become the mystics and great countless saints of today. Innumerable because of our ubiquity. Immeasurable because we are not singular, set-apart extraordinary individuals, but rather because we are becoming and WeCreating an empowered and enlivened collective. A vast communal network across the globe, inhabiting and enacting (abiding and attending) as the mystical Body of Christ, transforming the world in ways big and small.
Read More“Repent” is a loaded word in and of itself, but what it means in its roots is to turn around, to stop going in the direction you have been and return back. In the language Jesus spoke, Aramaic, it would have held a connotation of returning back to God.
And where is God?
How have we left God and moved away in the wrong direction?
WeCreating is about being an active part of bringing forth heaven on earth, in the here and now. We might also call that the work/play of loving evolution—a divine process of ongoing creation and holistic becoming.
In our divine participation, we are called to be co-creators of the new heaven and new earth—which is not a separate realm or distant future, but an integrative becoming and emergence in this world, in this life together. In this way, we become evolutionaries, those actively participating and contributing to loving evolution of the world, WeCreating the future.
Read MoreDo you know you have a Divine Vocation?
Yes, you. Every single one of us has it. It is the deepest calling of our lives.
Our divine vocation is not a call to the priesthood or ministry. It is not about your occupation or profession. It’s not even entirely primarily about what we do.
Our divine vocation is first and foremost about who we truly are.
Read MoreWhen was the last time you felt deeply inspired?
How have you felt the divine sparks of creative inspiration illuminating and animating possibility in your life?
As we evolve in our spiritual journey, many of us undergo significant transformations in the nature of our will and the source of our motivation.
Read MoreAs we go beyond getting caught up in the persons involved with evil and seek to engage on a deeper level of the source and roots, we will find the toxin from which the blight is grown.
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