The definition of "coincidence" is: 1. The state or fact of coinciding. 2. A seemingly planned sequence of accidentally occurring events.
The definition of "synchronous" is: 1. Happening at the same time. 2. Moving or operating at the same rate. 3. a. having identical periods. b. having identical period and phase.
Carl Jung coined the term "Synchronicity" for those odd, haunting coincidences that we all experience--those moments when events seem to conspire to tell us something, to teach us something, to turn our lives around. They are the strange "plot developments that make us feel as where are characters in a grand, mysterious story. Synchronicites are meaningful coincidences.
To me synchronicities are miracles with the a magical theme to them. Sometimes you are answered questions to your prayers. For instance, have you ever been pondering a solution to a problem and someone calls you-- without realizing it they offer you an answer to your problem?
more examples are: you think of someone you haven't seen in a while and they call you or you run into them? You miss a bus only to hear later that same bus was in a terrible accident?
It seems that love stories are great for being synchronistic nature, ie you take a wrong turn and meet the person of your dreams.
Some miracles/synchronicities take years to totally
play out. Below is a favorite of mine.
On a cold day in 1942, inside a Nazi
concentration camp, a lone young
boy looks beyond the barbed wire
and sees a young girl pass by. She
too, is moved by his presence. In an
effort to give expression to her
feelings, she throws a red apple over
the fence - a sign of life,
hope, and love. The young boy bends over,
picks up the apple. A ray
of light has pierced his darkness.
The following day, thinking he is crazy
for even entertaining the notion of seeing this
young girl again, he looks out beyond the
fence, hoping. On the other side of the
barbed wire, the young girl
yearns to see again this tragic figure who
moved her so. She comes
prepared with apple in hand. Despite
another day of wintry blizzards
and chilling air, two hearts are warmed once
again as the apple passes over the barbed wire.
The scene is repeated for several days. The
two young spirits on opposite sides of the
fence look forward to
seeing each other, if only for a moment and
if only to exchange a few
words. The interaction is always accompanied
by an exchange of inexplicably heartening
feelings.
At the last of these momentary meetings,
the young boy greets his sweet friend with a
frown and says, "Tomorrow, don't bring me an
apple, I will not be here. They are sending me
to another camp." The young boy walks away,
too heartbroken to look back.
>From that day forward, the calming image
of the sweet girl would
appear to him in moments of anguish.
Her eyes, her words, her
thoughtfulness, her red apple, all were a
recurring vision that would
break his nighttime sweats. His family died
in the war. The life he had known had all but
vanished, but this one memory remained alive
and gave him hope.
In 1957 in the United States, two adults,
both immigrants, are set up on a blind date.
"And where were you during the war?"
Inquires the woman. " I was in a concentration
camp in Germany," the man replies. " I remember
I used to throw apples over the fence to a
boy who was in a concentration camp,"
she recalls. With a feeling of
shock, the man speaks. "And did that boy say
to you one day, 'Don't bring an apple anymore
because
I am being sent to another camp'?"
"Why, yes," she responds, "but how could you
possibly know that?"
"He looks into her eyes and says, "
I was that young boy."
There is a brief silence, and then he
continues, " I was separated from you then,
and I don't ever want to be without you
again. Will you marry me?" They embrace
one another as she says,
"Yes."
On Valentine's Day 1996, on national
telecast of the Oprah Winfrey show, this same
man affirmed his enduring love to his wife of
forty years. " You fed me in the concentration
camp,
" he said, " you fed me throughout all these
years;
now, I remain hungry if only for your love."
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Miracles.