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 MoreCommunity is not just something that happens alongside our personal spiritual pursuits, but is the vital and necessary calling—especially in this time—of coming into our “unity together.” Of participating in the interbeing among us to actively and necessarily realize that our divine nature is collective. That we must come into this deeper way of mutuality not only to evolve further in our consciousness, but perhaps even essentially for our survival as a species.
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 MoreEvery healthy community needs compelling gathering energies and generative value. Community in and of itself, for itself, is not enough. In living community, the ties that bind/bond us are not solely the mental agreements and commonalities of individual preference, but the experiential qualities that mark the field among us each time we gather. These are the deeper lived values and ways of being together that have a collective life and can be felt when we enter the field—which is not bound to particular individuals, leaders or abstract ideals.
Here are some of those qualities commonly experienced in our community gatherings and groups.
Read MoreIn this writing, and those to follow in the weeks ahead, we will immerse ourselves in this divine communion through focusing on “Beloved Community,” which is one of the fundamental living lineages of ICN. We’ll revisit some of the core, foundational writings on this topic from years past, particularly how we “practice community” together—our ways of engaging in processes and practices together to deepen, inhabit, and be divine communion among us.
Read MorePractices to help us move in our evolving faith journey.
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