Coincidences

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What are your thoughts on coincidences? Could they be orchestrated by God to nudge us in a certain direction? Is He affirming that He’s heard our prayers?

I have been praying about a particular person that I cared deeply fore, but is no longer in my life. I’ve noticed random things, “coincidences”, occurring on a more frequent basis. When they occur, they do strike me as odd and I actually laugh and think “Are you kidding me?”

What are your thoughts on coincidences?
 
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What are your thoughts on coincidences? Could they be orchestrated by God to nudge us in a certain direction? Is He affirming that He’s heard our prayers?

I have been praying about a particular person that I cared deeply fore, but is no longer in my life. I’ve noticed random things, “coincidences”, occurring on a more frequent basis. When they occur, they do strike me as odd and I actually laugh and think “Are you kidding me?”

What are your thoughts on coincidences?
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I like them. Co-incidents are incidents that come together. It’s very interesting when they occur. It’s like Someone is in control. Imagine that? 😉
 
It’s a fair question. I have to say that sometimes what seems to be too much of a coincidence, to actually be a coincidence, well yea it is. Especially if it involves a love interest you have towards someone who doesn’t feel the same way about you.

However, you really can’t be too sure.

In my life I’ve seen it both ways. The supposed coincidence has turned out to be no coincidence at all. Other times, to my great sadness, it was a coincidence.
 
Coincidence falls within the scope of divine providence. Like everything else, coincidences do not happen for no reason. They are part of God’s plan for history.

However, we have to be careful not to read too much into coincidences. Often they have nothing like the meaning we may project onto them. We can be deceived by our own hopes and fears and confirmation bias. We can fall into superstition, looking for omens. It’s important to stay realistic and healthy. This is particularly true if we are talking about an emotionally charged, possibly emotionally unhealthy matter like romantic feelings for someone who is no longer in our life (no idea whether this is the case, but it sounds like it could be).
 
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However, we have to be careful not to read too much into coincidences. Often they have nothing like the meaning we may project onto them. We can be deceived by our own hopes and fears and confirmation bias. We can fall into superstition, looking for omens. It’s important to stay realistic and healthy. This is particularly true if we are talking about an emotionally charged, possibly emotionally unhealthy matter like romantic feelings for someone who is no longer in our life (no idea whether this is the case, but it sounds like it could be).
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You are correct. It does involve someone who used to be in my life, but unfortunately, we are not together anymore because of the geographic distance that came between us due to our jobs.

Every time a “coincidence” occurs, I mentally tell myself to shrug it off, it meant nothing. But the frequency at which they are occurring is very surprising; the timing for these events to occur had to be just right for me to hear specific things or for my eyes to catch a quick glimpse. I really don’t know what to make of it so I just wanted others’ feedback.
 
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