Who Will Join, Conclusion

The Adherents
 

As for essence, that is what happens after being for awhile acclimated in the Order of Present Moment. We will exist and be in essence according to our desire for God, our lessons and listening, our awareness of Him, our spiritual training, and God's mercy and love. The essence will be prayerfully, hopefully, faithfully: Christ's Essence. What we pray will show and stand out are the distinguishing effects of being in essence Christ for others and of ourselves being in Christ.

The Adherent in the Order of the Present lives the combined, concurrent roles of postulant, novice, and professed.  The Adherent is also procurator/administrator, with the required life responsibilities incumbent upon any human with obvious adjustments due to age or infirmity. The Adherent is also the extern. In traditional religious orders the extern interfaces with the world in order to procure food and other necessities so that the order religious can maintain their religious lives without much if any exposure to the temporal world. 

But in the Order of the Present Moment, the Adherent must learn the spiritual—if also the mysterious—ways of being in the world but not of it. And this lived in a literal sense, for we must live in the present moment, wherever and however God places us. If unable due to infirmity or poverty, for example, to shop for groceries or grow food, then one must live with the circumstances and allow others to shop or procure from food bank. 

But as St. Paul (if you do not work, you do not eat) and various early Church saints have taught, we must not be dependent upon others if we are able to  work or otherwise provide for our daily needs! If God has given us the bodies and minds and means to “pay our way”, then this is the present moment circumstance in which He has placed us. Therefore, thankfully, divinely given, holy self-sufficiency is one of the everyday duties of most OPM Adherents.

All of these matters will evolve providentially as one progresses in the Order of the Present Moment. Part of the growth is to learn to love and see the spiritual view, learn to love and see as God sees. This may take however many present moments as it takes. God knows how many. Our opportunity is to simply insert ourselves in the process no matter where we are in any given situation. There is much to learn and love. Adherents will not be disappointed.

 What is next for the OPM Adherent? How is life in this spiritual order going to be different than life not in it? We will attempt offering glimpses of how living it may flow—enough insights that others can learn to adapt and incorporate in their own lives, to learn the flow, truly of God's will. For we must see all the more now, that we must learn that all depends upon God, and this means very much for each soul's desiring of God, in each present moment. Our desire for Him comes from Him. We will learn to come to Him step by step.