Michelle Currie asked a fabulous question on her Instagram yesterday. You’ll find the post here. It’s a short, 4-minute video that I would encourage you go watch and then come back, but the question is, “What is the common thread?”
My reply is comment #5 (please go check out her post if you still haven’t 🙂), but I wanted to say a bit more about it.
My common thread goes a bit deeper than expressing ideas that people may not be familiar with. My favourite subjects in high school were math, physics, and computer science. The main thing I liked about these classes was that there was always a logical answer. I felt that in these classes I wasn’t subjected to the opinions, preferences, and whims of the teacher like I was in English or some of the other essay-based subjects. 1+1 is always 2 regardless of who you are. If you have an object of a certain mass that you want to move a specific distance, you can calculate how much energy, how much force, you’ll need to move it, which means overcoming the forces trying to keep it from moving. And if your computer program doesn’t work or gives unexpected values when you run it, it’s because you left out a semicolon, called the wrong class, or made a little typo somewhere in your code. But if you go back and look through your code carefully, you’ll find the line that is causing you to have results you don’t want, and you can change it.
I found the subjects soothing. Everything made sense. All I needed was understanding and logic to get the results I wanted or was expecting. Nothing was random or arbitrary.
Spirituality gives me that same soothing feeling. The Universe isn’t random, cold, and unfeeling. We aren’t subject to the winds of chance. There is an order to things. And the fact that nothing is random doesn’t mean that everything is pre-planned or that we are pawns. It simply means that given specific input and taking into account all of the forces acting on that input, you will get predictable results.