Happy Coincidence

 

 

Serendipity

“Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy and beneficial way.”

Janice Debo

          Have you ever thought about someone, picked up your phone to call them, when it rings and it’s them? You say, “I was just about to call you.” Or, run into an old friend in an airport or a restaurant, who introduces you to a friend of theirs, and the minute your eyes meet, you feel the gravitational field shift? You know without knowing why that this person will have a major impact on your life. That’s serendipity.

          Another example: You have a problem with cash flow and an important bill is coming up that must be paid. You worry and fret about how on earth you can cover that payment. When you go to your mailbox, there is a check reimbursing you for an item you had forgotten all about that covers the bill and then some. Serendipity is a happy coincidence. We’ve all had them. It’s like the stars align and open a little crack in the cosmos allowing the answer to a prayer to slip through and make its way straight to you.

          Here is a real-life example: A wonderful woman named Susan met my cousin Jerry on a dating site. They lived in different towns, but both in North Carolina. They met for the first time in Asheville, just for coffee, and spent the next four hours talking. It was mutual attraction from the very beginning. Susan and Jerry ended up marrying and when I met Susan, she and I felt as though we had known each other forever. We bonded at the soul level. I happened, at that time, to be seeing a man, Andy, who was originally from the Chicago area. His job had brought him to Birmingham in the early 90’s. Shortly after Susan and Jerry married, Andy traveled with me to North Carolina to visit them. Somewhere in the process of getting to know each other, we discovered that as a young woman, Susan had known Andy’s parents and had visited their lake house up in Indiana. She had even been in his first cousin’s wedding and had photos to prove it! Serendipity is an amazing and happy coincidence.

          I choose to believe that everyone comes into our lives for a reason. The way we meet and interact may appear to be random, but it’s not. Our lives are led by an inner source of wisdom. Our happenstances, though not iron clad, are at least guided by this source which wants us to learn, grow, and become whole. People are placed in our path, and we in theirs, for reasons that often don’t make sense to our cerebral cortex, because they are guided by the soul, and not the brain. Serendipity is for our benefit. When it happens to you, pay attention. Your soul is at work.

                                                  In the Spirit,

                                                  Jane