Towards…Significance
I havent written a blog entry in a while now and wanted to embed something here for you in this current chapter of time. This is about the pursuit of significance—a word that’s been in my mind a lot recently.
Significance is a holy idea. It combines intentional separation with the assumption of mandate and agreement with what mandate makes of you. Thus, it is a way in which we carry ourselves to stay as our true selves in time. Pertaining to journaling, significance comes into the picture as a verb, “to sign” ourselves, “to significate” in essence as a way of archiving in response to our journeys. When our journeys reveal meaning to us, the act of signing revelation into law via journaling is an assertion of power and fortelling of glory. Furthermore, when we journal we are establishing ourselves as significant beings whose existence requires our preservation, the interaction of an archival attitude.
The Western system hates significance. Those who carry themselves significantly cannot be controlled. Significant ones are not irrational beings awaiting schadenfreude of capitalist dictations to guide their navigations, are not imprisoned by the constructs of terrorists or trying to propitiate them at the loss of their descendants’ birthrights. Significant beings are insulated by privacy— protected from the initiations that make fools and the trends that attract the wantonness of brutish minds. Vessels of truth and discernment, those who pursue significance are generously typified by the specificity of their choices. They preserve, they are private, they are unique, they love history, they testify to truthful things, they despise ways of lying, etc. Significant beings understand that they are marking time with their yes’ and no’s, memory and declaration. And they guard themselves to keep the integrity of their significance—an action that daunts the system that needs to corral the masses into despising significance and capriciously obeying any loud, commanding voice. Significant beings are selectively obedient.
As you sojourn consider how you will wield your significance. Who will touch it? Who will never hold it? Where can it never reside? Though always praiseworthy, your significance is no generator for praise. And though always a gateway to validation when mechanized, accessorized, or drugged properly, never hybridize significance with an ungodly tweak that will deviated it to the table of your enemies. Checks are always signed for significance and. Passes are always given to those willing to taint significance. Proud, powerful men invite significance to their banquets every day. The identifier of significance is not how many invite, promote, pay, dress, associate, repost, follow, document, or award you. Fame and significance are not synonymous. The mark of significance is who keeps it generation to generation—it is a durable, enduring thing when not cheapened by monument turned idol or heirloom turned product. Capitalism cannot guard nor can it ever be qualified to shepherd significance, so there’s no place for significance within its brutal constructs. You have to identify it, create a place for it, and obey the designation it convicts into your soul so as to not be separated from it.
Journaling—historicizing—is a diligent method of fortifying significance. All the matriarchs will understand. Our creation of chapters is one of the most significant things we can do in this life we have been situated within. It is the memory our descendants deserve, and our journaling creates the credible caul, the faithful vertebrae that frames the significance that pulls through us. Our journals are tangible memories of multitudes of lives we have lived and they are significant because we sign and date and signify and signal our chronological selves with them. We are able to trace direction through archived significance, obeying not popular opinion but hope registered and set into place by navigations of understanding. Significance is celestial and Divine and the living of it is a culture of circumstantial nomadity and speaking with authority. It is the vehement refusal of all that denies the width and breadth of our purpose. It is the challenging of all that doubts the informativeness of quiet wisdom that guides us away from what the masses call worthy, sturdy, hospitable, salty. We keep our archives to keep records of the look and feel of our significance. Significance is a straight and narrow path whose landmarks need careful description. If we want our generations to end up in the same place, we must carefully document the unfolding presentations and Divine revelations of our significance. These entries we write of supernatural encounters and “meanwhile” chapters are instructions to even our future selves on what must be kept and nudged and obeyed and abstained from to maintain our significance. Can we see the end? No. We can only do our part in tending to our portion of the significance continuum. We journal by faith and note by an urging of no ordinary origin.
