Synchronicity

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them. The events would also have to suggest some underlying pattern in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as originally developed by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.

Carl Jung coined the word to describe what he called "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously described synchronicity as an "'acausal connecting principle'" (i.e. a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by direct causality), "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism". Jung introduced the concept in his 1952 paper "Synchronicity — An Acausal Connecting Principle", though he had been considering the concept for almost thirty years.

It differs from mere coincidence in that synchronicity implies not just a happenstance, but an underlying pattern or dynamic expressed through meaningful relationships or events.

It was a principle that Jung felt encompassed his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history — social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual.

Jung believed that many experiences perceived as coincidence were not merely due to chance but, instead, suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances reflecting this governing dynamic.

***I have been experiencing this a lot in my life, synchronicity that is. Although Jung might have believed the more humanistic realities were involved, I believe it shows us once again that God has an order and pattern for everything in our lives.***

You suck, now quit

We do lots of things in life repeatedly: shower, eat, communicate, and learn. Then there are those things that we do that we consider talents or learned activities. Those can be many different things. The activities that we consider talents, usually have a great deal of time and/or effort invested in them.

So what if something we thought we were actually really good at doing, turned out to be something we had no skill at all doing.

Or what if we found out we aren’t good at doing something we really enjoy.

Would we still do it?

For example: Cooking ( I promise, this is not a real life story, just an example for explanation purposes. I have been known to be a pretty decent cook.) What if someone thought they were a great cook and they did it all the time? Then they found out one day that they kinda sucked.

What would you do?