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.
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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 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.”
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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 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.
Read MoreRepentance can be a creative act—a movement arising from deep within, inviting us into greater freedom and new discoveries. Rather than giving our energy to what limits, blocks, or keeps us stuck, we can engage in sacred turning as a practice of repair, balance, and healing. In so doing, we restore the flow of life, making space for the creative force of divine love to move through us.
If “Christianity” repents, as we explored last week, what is my response? What is my part in it?
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