coincidence
Well, I owe everyone an apology. I should have let you know that I was going to be out of communication for a while. I thought it was only going to be for 2 weeks, but . . . time flies when you get out of focus. Thanks to all of you who were checking back in.
So many of the miracles I’ve been seeing the last few years have shown up as coincidences – coincidences that were just too coincidental to be just coincidences.
Last week I was at a seminar where I got to know a number of great people from varied backgrounds. One of those people was on my flight home. I was coming to San Diego; he was heading to Baltimore. Now those two destinations are not my first picks for being on the same flight, but there we were. At one point in the conversation, he, I’ll call him Bob, told me that the fairly new pastor at his church had come from a San Diego suburb, and that the pastor was returning to a church in Oceanside, a town in San Diego County. I asked the pastor’s name and found I’d never heard of him. (Let’s call him John Hanes.) But I found it interesting that apparently Bob and I happened to be in the same denomination.
Two days later, I received an email from my church passing on a letter from the head of the regional governing body of the denomination. The first paragraph of that letter was devoted to welcoming Rev. Dr. John Hanes back to the San Diego region to the church in Oceanside.
As they say . . . “What’re the odds . . . ?” It was a very circuitous and unlikely route by which I had an update from both coasts of the country on a man I’d never heard of before who is not only in my denomination, but within the same regional organization. I’m having to restrain myself from trying to point out to you all the little odd factors that had to come together to reach this point of amazement. But that would take a lot of the fun out of it wouldn’t it.
Oh, one more thing. I’ve lived in San Diego more than 35 years and have only visited Oceanside less than a handful of times (not counting passing by on the freeway). I just recently began a business relationship that now takes me to Oceanside recurrently. In fact, I had been there just the day before I left for the seminar.
I can’t wait to see where this leads!
I just read a blog post from my friend and great blogger Hilary ( 
Life is changing. It’s moving fast and it’s going in a new direction whether we like it or not. There are so many factors that we absolutely cannot control. We think we are gathering problems for which there are no solutions. There seem to be no options. But we can’t see them, so we only think they’re not there. The options are actually endless.
