Becoming a Tuning Fork for Love

In these times of division and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel that the world is losing its center. Yet, as Bruce Sanguin reminds us in The Emerging Church, lasting change begins not out there—but within each of us. 

As we’re learning in our Emerging Church class, by practicing a few core spiritual and psychological competencies, we help create what Sanguin calls morphic resonance—a shared field of coherence and compassion that shapes our community’s vibration. 

It starts with emotional literacy, the courage to feel what we feel without blame or projection. By naming and owning our feelings rather than projecting them, we develop inner authority—the ability to respond rather than react. When we cultivate this self-awareness, we become less susceptible to the reactivity that fuels polarization. 

 Then comes self-differentiation, standing in our truth while staying connected in love. Compassion allows us to stay present even when others see the world differently. Together, they create a vibrational field of safety and extraordinary respect. 

Add shadow work.  To contribute to morphic resonance, we must integrate what we’ve denied or disowned. This practice of humility releases judgment and opens us to empathy. As we do our inner work, we make the collective field less reactive, more creative, and more loving.  

Spiritual intelligence Beyond intellectual knowing, spiritual intelligence is the capacity to live as part of a larger whole. In community, this means seeing conflict as opportunity, diversity as richness, and change as the evolutionary impulse at work. When we show up in participatory presence, we mirror the deeper truth of our interconnectedness. 

Resonance -  what you can do! 

When even a few people consistently embody these competencies, something extraordinary happens: the field shifts. The atmosphere of fear and separation gives way to trust and curiosity. This is morphic resonance in action—a contagious coherence that ripples outward. 

In a culture divided by ideology, our calling is to become resonant instruments of Love. As each of us tunes our own being to the frequency of compassion, courage, and humility, our beloved community becomes a living demonstration that unity is not uniformity—it is harmony.  

This is how division dissolves—not through argument, but through resonance. 

Each of us can be a tuning fork for harmony, helping our beloved community remember who we are: love in action.