252. A giraffe doesn’t seem to make much sense either!

Dating in this mature stage of life can be effortless and fun when we just relax into living out the urgings of the voice within. If the voice says, “Take some dancing lessons,” you sign up for some lessons. If the voice says, “Just relax and don’t go to that party tonight,” you just do it, even if it might seem crazy. The ego-mind doesn’t like it this way, though, and it’ll probably pop up with statements like, “No, you can’t sit back right now. You’ve got to get out there if you’re ever going to find a partner. Remember, you’re not getting any younger!”

The ego-mind thinks it’s in control so it wants to make your life work. It wants to know and control the outcome of life. But the promptings from within often don’t seem to make much sense. For example, the ego-mind couldn’t begin to see that not forcing yourself to attend a party that feels unsuitable to you could lead to anything but utter loneliness in old age. But do we realistically know that worry and search will be better than just relaxing into life as it naturally unfolds and as we’re naturally prompted to live? Maybe you’ll literally bump into your lifetime partner in a parking lot fender-bender! That’s not something the ego-mind could ever plan for.

Or with those dancing lessons you took. No one in the class looks at all like a potential partner and you might find yourself wondering, “Why am I doing this?” Then the last night of the class you meet a man who comes to pick up his sister at the end of that lesson… and voila!... there’s the man you were supposed to meet. That apparent “chance meeting” makes no sense to the ego-mind but the Source doesn’t care what the ego-mind thinks. It just lives as you, playing out the life called Jeannie, Sue or Tom in the mysterious, playful way it wants to. After all, this is the same Source that put a giraffe and a bare-butted monkey on earth, remember!

Copyright © 2007 Chuck Custer