Coincidence? Or Synchronicity?
Or, more likely, Kuan Yin?

co-in-ci-dence - Two or more unrelated occurrences happening at the same time.

It was a coincidence Cherry and Elizabeth independently, but on the same day, just happened to mention to Eileen that they were worried because I really needed a healer/nurse and they, neither one, could come. Eileen hadn't realized the need because, like me, she just expects me to get well right away. But of course, as soon as they said it, she did realize they were right.
And Eileen coincidentally had just finished up a whole bunch of things and had her first free time in months, so she could come and did. I had asked Kuan Yin for help, but I was really surprised when Eileen phoned and said she'd be here the next day. Just a coincidence, of course.
It was a coincidence that Martina's boss assigned her a week off when she didn't particularly want it for anything, just when Eileen had to go home and I still needed a nurse and again had asked Kuan Yin for help.
It was a coincidence that, just after I told Kuan Yin that I thought it would be really pleasant (and healing as well) to have little pleasant or amusing surprises once in a while to cheer me up, Neil, a stranger, wrote me a very funny letter explaining that it was he who tangles up phone cords (see July '95 Otherworld Arts), Angela sent flowers, lots of people sent cards including a really funny one from Vince & Leslie, Elaine brought me a beautiful fairy, a new modem arrived from Charlene & Nancy, a package containing sparkly things for the ceiling and big bottles of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup (and other things) arrived from Jon & Nadine - and other good things happened as well. I was just showered with loving gifts and thoughts.
It was a coincidence that Eileen just found (under my bed) the one book I most needed at just the moment I really needed to re-read it. (The God Box by Barry Longyear, in case you need to read it too - most people do, if only they knew it.)
It was a coincidence that I told Eileen and Martina that they were accumulating so much good karma that the universe would have to work extra hard to catch up, and when Eileen went home she received an unusual number of small blessings, a steady stream of hugs and flowers and money and other small gifts from the god/dess, using whoever's hands were nearest. And of course, it was a coincidence that Martina was unexpectedly given a computer and printer - just so she'd notice, which she'd been afraid she might not.
It would take too many pages to tell you all of the coincidences. However, it was also a coincidence that Nadine wrote a book review in the last US issue of the Order's newsletter, which I just received. In it she mentions that Stephen Forrest (The Night Speaks: A Meditation of the Astrological Worldview) talked about synchronicity. He quoted Carl Jung as saying:
Events occur in our universe for either of two reasons:
1. Something causes them to happen, or
2. It would be meaningful to them to occur.

I don't think I actually believe in coincidences, but by the goddess' lovely red toe nails, I certainly do believe in synchronicity.

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