Coincidences

Yesterday afternoon I called on my next door neighbour and asked if she could have my second flat key if the circumstance arose that I locked myself out. She was quite willing to take on this role only she asked me, almost half - assuming, if I knew about her current circumstances. When I assured her that I knew nothing about them she then informed me that she had just locked herself out of her own flat and that the timing of such an intervention was rather comical. She further emphasisied the irony of the whole situation and mentioned a similar kind of occurence recently with another friend. My natural inclination is to put such events down to God's grand scheme of things, which could still be true only this lady - although sharing a basic faith with me in an 'otherness' didn't have anything approaching the comparatively clear cut and fixed view of God that I held.

Such coincidental occurences have happened to me before sometimes in clusters such as the occasion that I climbed on to a train and found myself sitting next to my best mate from university and then on arrival at my intended stop met my second best from university, unexpectedly at the station (perhaps less strange but after the first event I was more open). There was a third event that was more complex to explain than the previous two during the course of my visit that further added to my sense of things happening that transcended comprehension.

One further event that comes immediately to mind in this context is that a former home group leader at Church not only went to school with my brother but was one of his 'best mates.' Has this achieved anything lasting and noteworthy for him, me or my brother? Well not that i'm aware - it is just that I put it down to the workings of a mighty God that goes beyond my understanding.

Maybe one day it'll all make sense.