The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Nov. 3/18

Linda’s prompt this week is “point”, except we aren’t using the word “point”…we are opening a random book and randomly pointing a finger on a random word, and then writing randomly about the random word. So random.

Anyhoo, I’m doing this live…so hold on a sec while I go pick out a book…

OK, I’m back. I chose Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love”. My finger randomly landed on the word “cosmically”. Well, that’s a tough one, I think. Let me put the entire sentence out here for context. “When we outgrow our immature preoccupation with the small self, we transcend our selfishness and become cosmically mature”. Oh, that’s better. This is actually an interesting sentence for me to randomly land upon, although I am quite aware that nothing on this Earth occurs at random. Let me tell you why…

I did not have a lot of friends growing up. We all know the story, and if you don’t, then feel free to browse my posts and catch up. Anyway, I have since evolved, matured and stopped my “preoccupation with the small self”. Through the power of Facebook, I have since become acquainted with some former classmates I never had the joy of knowing back then. None of it is random at all. I just sent one of these pure energy souls a lovely little Jeff Brown snippet to a few days ago.

“The soul has a no-return policy. Once we cross a certain point in our expansion, we can’t go back. As we honor our calling, we grant it more space inside of us. Light begets light–at a certain point, there is no way to escape the inner beacon. Our calling begins to soak every aspect of our lives, whatever the cost or inconvenience. We can not live without our call because our call has become us”. 

Marianne goes on to describe “childishness” as “when we’re so preoccupied with things that ultimately don’t matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do”.  Yes, Marianne…yes. I find myself shedding my childishness, over and over and over again. Just when I think I’ve matured, I find yet another thing I’ve worried about that really just does not matter. I’m working hard at focusing on what’s important, letting go of expectations and control, and letting things simply “be”.  Am I successful? Sometimes.