Coincidences. They happen every day.

You pull over with a flat tire and seconds later there’s a massive pileup at the next intersection.

You get a $50 rebate check and an unexpected $50 invoice on the same trip to the mailbox.

The defining difference lies in your perspective on such events.

Are they just chance occurrences or is there some other force at work?

For the critical mind, it’s easier to view them as chance coincidence. But ask yourself what difference might it make if you ascribed the event to something more divine?

In the former choice, there is no change to your day, your mood or your outlook on life. It’s just another event in a litany of others that make up an otherwise routine day.

In the latter choice, there is every opportunity to feel just a little more hopeful, a bit more optimistic and a better than even chance that you’ll begin and end your day believing there’s more to life than simply what meets the eye.

What might very well be pure chance, might also very well be divinely providential.

With one, you walk away having gained nothing. With the other, you walk on and look forward to the next coincidence.

What have you got to lose?

Or perhaps better said,
what do you have to gain?