I once heard a psycologist say that if you think of an object and lock it into your mind, you will start to see it everywhere.
Like clowns.
Say that you decided upon clowns as your object (this would only be if you weren’t deathly afraid of them as I know some of you are). Within the next week, you start noticing the word “clown” written everywhere. It jumps off the page.
Pictures of clowns start appearing all over the place.
Of course, those words and pictures were there all the time, but because of your heightened awareness ~ they are all you see.
I’m going to stop talking about clowns, because I’m home alone and it is starting to get dark and…it’s getting a little creepy thinking about smiling white faces.
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It was a simple tweet that asked a simple question. “What is your word of the year?”
“LET GO” popped into my head.
Problem is that “Let go” is two words and even with Twitter’s 140 character limitation, there wasn’t anyway I could make that phrase into one word.
But I did anyway. I tweeted that my word of 2010 was LETGO. My fellow follower agreed. She said “letgo” as my one word for 2010 worked for her.
Letting go and it’s themes have been appearing everywhere.
A respected businesswoman with whom I am acquainted was struggling with lots of worry about selling her business. She said, “You know, when I just dropped everything and stood back…it all fell into place.”
I ran the Disney Marathon and in writing about the experience the morning after, I had a billion different memories which could have gone a billion different directions. As I started to whittle down from 1000 plus words and kept cutting and cutting, when I looked at what remained…it was letting go. Discarding all the clothing I had packed on myself…not hanging on to things because of fear.
Weird.
Then last Sunday at church with my extraordinary cool group of woman I share study and coffee with each Sunday, we were talking about sins that keep us from God. One very hip, pulled together chick admitted, “Letting go. I’ve just got to get better about letting go of things.”
I don’t know what LETGO means to you. I’m not sure I know what it means to me, but someone is trying to get that message through my thick skull.
If I had to guess, for me it’s about not worrying as much, trusting a mega-ton more, trying to live a godly life…all the while trying my hardest to do my best…then
Jump. Freefall. Let go.
Today, I was e-mailing back and forth with a writer friend. We probably haven’t communicated in a month and as an afterthought her last email to me had the link to this video, and her words were..”Got a great music video for you. Watch it all the way through! …Jan.”
What is your word…the word that is been following you???
Another weird theme developing in my life. MARCHING BANDS.What the heck is up with that? Don’t know…but I will just letgo and enjoy.
Btw, the band is OK Go and the marching band is Notre Dame’s finest…
I love this Jamie…..how simple – how poetic…..if we could all learn to just “letgo”….hmmmmm. Great!!