|  I just got done watching Euro Trip, which I downloaded a few hours ago. In this movie, Scott and Cooper befriended the Manchester United Football Club, which I'd never heard of prior to my first time watching the movie. Minutes ago, I paid a visit to myLot, and what was the first item under sports, at the top of the page? Manchester United.
This always happens to me! I'll be talking about Loni Anderson, seconds before her name comes up on the radio. I'll look at the phone a half-second before it rings. I think about my friend M. Winchester (no full names) as I'm opening Thunderbird, and download the first e-mail from him in months, with the single line, "Are you thier?" (English is not his strongest subject). I order a replacement from TigerDirect for my desktop PC's failing hard drive. I wake up one morning, and think, "Wouldn't it be nice if my hard drive got here two days early?" A couple hours later, UPS rings the doorbell.
In Job Corps, I run into a friend one Friday afternoon, and proceed to give her a hug as I always do. She shrinks away from me angrily, obviously having a bad day. I leave her alone. The next morning, I wake up at 5:30 a.m., when lack of commitment would usually have me sleeping in until about noon. I get up, shower, groom, dress, and go for a walk to "nowhere in particular." I wind up in an empty parking lot in front of the island chapel, and find a MasterCard lying face down on the asphalt. It's her father's credit card, and the very reason she was upset the afternoon before. She and I are two out of some 850 students, not counting the 240 staff.
I've prayed desperately for a friend in NY who was in a bad domestic situation. A week-and-a-half later, I read about how five other lives (minus one) were involved in the metamorphosis of her life. Things have been hunky dory ever since (praise God).
Most of the coincidences in my life are meaningless, as far as I can tell. But they have become so frequent that they are enough to keep my faith going strong until the next important event, in which I get to be a vessel of what I believe to be the will of my Maker. How about you? Is there a lot of "coincidence" in your life, and what does it mean to you?
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