Coincidences

[fin]

I think most people have experienced having coincidences in their life. These things happen to me, though I don’t look too much into them. I say to myself, “Oh it’s just a coincidence.”

Lately a name of particular person keeps cropping up. I try not to think of the name and I’ve been successful in doing so. But because it keeps cropping up, it reminds me.

I’m not looking too much into this, not paying too much attention. I told this to a friend. He said that maybe I have to face this (whatever this is).

He has a point, but I don’t think that just because I’m avoiding thinking of this, the more it will crop up.

What I’m doing is praying for that person who has that name. Maybe God is trying to tell me something and I’m ignoring it. I don’t know.

 

[Cat_Herder]

Here is a timely article by Mark Shea.

 

[baltobetsy]

Here is a timely article by Mark Shea.

Wow, that was really worth reading. Thanks for posting it. Folks, if you passed by without clicking on it, click now.

 

[Crumpy]

Don’t pay any attention to me. I read all these posts, and I have a problem with calling things ‘coincidences.’

By calling things coincidences we’re saying that God is not involved in them, that they are just the result of some roll of the dice of the universe.

Scripture, especially the book of Job, teaches us that we don’t always – and maybe never – understand the purposes of God. And, so to call some things coincidences is, in a sense, to rob God of His glory.

In this forum on spirituality, we should be eager to give God the credit and glory, expecially for the unexpected or impossible, which only a skeptic might call a coincidence.

I apologize for poking this subject in the eye, but I want God to take charge of things and do the unexpected and even the impossible. That’s what I’m waiting for and praying for, all the time it seems. I pray for a lot of gifts that we otherwise take as commonplace, such as life, breath, God’s provision in our lives, comfort, safety, health, long life, etc.