While My Guitar Gently Weeps

So I've started a journal for the baby.  It sounds weird but I keep thinking of things I know I'll want to remember, or I'll want to tell her.  I've got about 5 entries so far but I liked today's.  I had a little bit of a revelation.

Dear Baby:

So.  I've been talking and singing to you lately.  Supposedly, you can hear me now!  But the song I've been singing to you has been a strange choice....

For a while now, I've had "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by the Beatles stuck in my head.  Why this as a lullaby for you?  I wasn't sure why until today.....until I thought about the story of how George Harrison wrote it. 

At the time the song was written, Harrison was studying the I Ching.  It's an Eastern Philosophy book that says there are no coincidences in this world.  There are no mistakes.  No accidents.  The smallest occurrence has a purpose and a major effect on the world.  After reading this, to prove a point he decided to take a book, open it randomly and whatever word or phrase he landed on, he would write a song about it.  The phrase he landed on was "gently weeps".  The song became one of his most famous and most celebrated of his career.

The lyrics don't exactly make sense as far as why you would sing it to a baby, but the meaning behind it does.  Your dad and I certainly weren't expecting you, but you were meant to be.  You have a purpose.  You are wanted and you are loved.  Never forget that.

You are my random find in a book, but you'll be my most celebrated accomplishment.

I love you,
Mom