Faith pointers and synchronicity
Ever heard of something called faith pointers? Ever heard of synchronicity? Officially they are described as the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection.
Have you ever experienced perfect timing, a moment when everything just seems to fall into place? For a moment, we step out of the random chaos and find that all forces are aligned with nothing pre-planned and yet, all is in order. We can’t stop thinking about someone and we run into them on the street; a person we have just met offers us the perfect job; we miss our plane and on the next flight we sit next to someone with whom we fall in love. This is what Carl Jung called synchronicity, a state of grace. Faith pointers and synchronicity subtly guides our direction for moment towards something, or someone. Guidance that seems to have the potential to slightly alter our lives in one way or another.
The good and bad are the pointers that will lead toward your destination
Both of these experiences or faith pointers and synchronicity are part of the greater experience of faith and belief. Belief in things we may not always be able to see. Both of which are necessary to grow and to know God, self and others. Yes, I said necessary. When we come to understand and accept this, much of the anxiety can fall away. We become able to do what Paul did, to treat both of these imposters the same. After all as the American theologian Tillich stated, everything in relationship to God has to pass through the door of faith. Are you seeing the beauty of all of this? We can take confidence and refuge in the fact that the labyrinth of life we face daily, can never beat us, it has no authority to beat us, only we can beat us. You see, it has already itself been overcome and beaten. Faith pointers and synchronicity to your own path are everywhere, you need only look. Oftentimes, in therapy, people become shocked when they eventually put two and two together and realize how events actually came together to bring them into therapy for example. Often people don’t go to therapy until situations deem it bad enough to do so. Which is unfortunate. Often people need a push, and this gentle nudging seems to come in the form of these faith pointers and synchronicity, as we are talking about them here.
In Julie Pointer’s article, “Waiting for the Spark,” she explores her recent transition into the unexplored territory of full-time freelancing. She chose to leave the safety and security of working for a company and says each day is a discipline in releasing control. It seems she found many faith pointers on her journey.
Pointer writes: “instead of keeping our hands clasped firmly around our own ideas of how life should pan out, we’re required to take up a new posture of open palms, ready to embrace whatever greets us. The danger for dreamers who plan is that we often end up clinging too tightly to our expectations about how life ought to unfold, rushing our way toward dreamed-of destinations at the expense of simply savoring the journey. If our eyes are firmly clamped on one particular endpoint — the place where we will live, the career path we may follow, the kind of person we think we should marry — we risk missing out on the many great and mysterious beauties that will happen to us along the way.”
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