{"id":115,"date":"2007-02-27T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/02\/are-coincidences-mini-miracles.html"},"modified":"2007-02-27T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T12:15:00","slug":"are-coincidences-mini-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/02\/are-coincidences-mini-miracles.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Coincidences Mini-Miracles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we’re on the topic of spiritual communication, I have wanted to say for some time that nothing pleases me more than to read on the various message boards notes like this: “I stumbled across your post when looking for something else, and it is exactly what I needed to hear.”<\/p>\n

I believe that most coincidences are mini-miracles.<\/p>\n

Take the story of how I met my guardian Angel Ann<\/a>, or how Chris LaPanta was there to save little Will<\/a> from drowning on Ash Wednesday, or when Rose Nowak sent me a medal of St. Therese<\/a> at a critical time in my depression.<\/p>\n

Last winter, while reading Deepak Chopra’s book “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence<\/a>,” I started a “coincidence log,” as he suggests, where I’d jot down my intention and then what transpired.<\/p>\n

My first entry: “Intention: to get a part-time tutoring job.” <\/p>\n

The very next day I went running, and passed a guy (actually, he passed me) who directed the Academic Center at the Naval Academy<\/a>. I asked this friend of a friend if he knew of any tutoring positions.<\/p>\n

“Funny you should ask,” he said. “Yesterday I talked to the director of the Writing Center<\/a>, and they just received some funding that allows them to hire some part-time tutors. He asked me if I knew of anyone.”<\/p>\n

Wow. I liked this Deepak exercise!<\/p>\n

Eric (the aquaintence, not my hubby Eric) gave me the guy’s e-mail, and I set up an interview with him. The next day, I went running again. In front of me was Eric, again, walking with a young man in uniform. <\/p>\n

“Eric,” I said. “I don’t see you for months, and then two days in a row.”<\/p>\n

“How ironic,” he said, pointing to the man next to him. “This is Chip Crane, who directs the Writing Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Oh hi, Therese,” Chip said, shaking my hand. “We’re set to meet tomorrow morning, right?”<\/p>\n

Right. And that’s when I was hired as a part-time writing tutor. <\/p>\n

What do you think? Are coincidences are mini-miracles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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