Short Story: Coincidence, or synchronicity. Is there a difference?

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John's life had been very painful for him since his mother had died about 6 months earlier, before. He just could not get over her death. It had been a terrible death to get over, and he seemed to be fastened to it, thinking about it still every day. John's mother had wasted away from a healthy vibrant lady to a skeleton of herself not able to move or even speak, at the last. She had lost so much weight. She couldn't eat nor even drink anything for the last ten days, or more of her life. She went from a healthy weight of 55 kilos to only 15, at the time of her death, from cancer. John's mind constantly dwelled on her death, and her manner of passing. He could not move past it. He was fixated on it, it seemed. John was walking along a busy road where he saw an add on a board in a tram-stop for a roll-on deodorant. He didn't take much notice of this. It hardly registered at all in his brain, and he walked on. John used to love visiting second-hand bookshops. John was on his way to work now, but, on the spur of the moment, he suddenly veered down an alleyway, and he walked into his favourite second-hand bookshop, which he often had frequently visited before, but since his mother had died, he had even lost interest in his doing this. John went into the building, into the second-hand bookshop, where he took down a book from a large wooden shelf, then he opened it at random, and his eyes landed on the word, "rollon". John's mind did a double take. He had seen this word somewhere else today, he thought to himself. Then in his mind, he felt some part of his higher self talking to him. John was told in his mind that he was meant to find that word, and that he should chant that word from now on whenever he had any troubling issues in his life, as he should remember then to "rollon" through, and then past the trouble, like the well-known axiom, adage, or saying, "even this shall pass". So, John did this. Whenever he felt pain or stress, he chanted this word, "rollon", and it seemed to help him. He realised he must keep living his own life, and to "rollon", or to roll, with life's punches. Everything in life changes, things happen, and we move on from them. Nothing stays the same. We move on and past all events that do not hold us to them, unless we hold ourselves to them. The permanence of God doesn't pass, but we, in him, living events in him, do not pass either. We only go past the events, learning from them, and moving on then to other events, in which we grow closer to God, but never quite reach him. If we really became one with God, we ourselves would not then exist too, or would we? The answer to that question is the answer to this paradox of God. We can become one with God, but still keep distanced from him as ourselves at the same time too. When is a coincidence more than just that? When it has meaning for you! Photo Credit: The photo used here was freely sourced from the free media site: pixabay.com