From 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 series, we have been exploring our call to WeCreating, which is the invitation to step more fully into our participation in our divine nature—to be creators together of the future in loving evolution. This is also what we are calling the next phase of growth for ICN, moving from the Founding Stage to the WeCreating Stage.
The energy and capacity for this comes from our divine vitality, which is our essential life force enlivening us with the love that is the deep force of evolution. Our motivation and will then springs from a greater calling than our own desires, as we are filled with divine inspiration for sacred possibilities. Our divine vocation is then discerned, inhabited, and integrated more into our life as we better understand who we truly are and how that expresses and speaks from our deepest being.
Ways of discernment, integration, and inhabiting is our invitation of becoming this week.
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 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.
“In taking up our divine agency, if we truly believe and experience ourselves as participants in the divine nature, then we will increasingly feel more and more compelled from our divine source to do what God does—create in love.”
Read MoreWhen 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 MoreIt was seven years ago, on Epiphany in 2019, Integral Christian Network was first launched. What a wonderful marker to reflect on all of the life and goodness that has come forth from this community over the years!
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?”
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