Perplexed Popcorn: Synchronicity

Have you ever been unfamiliar with a car, a word, a phrase, a person, a t.v. show, a whatever... and then the minute you are introduced to it that is all you hear, see, or notice for the next few weeks??? Or perhaps you can't get someone off your mind. A friend that you don't hear from or talk to very often...then all of a sudden there is a message on your answering machine from them or someone connected to them. Or perhaps on your birthday you dream about someone that has meant a great deal to you and for whatever reason you've lost contact with them. Then before you turn around you see them at the grocery store. Another way it happens is when you randomly run into people whose only connection with you is a mutual friend that you share. You run into two or three individuals that cause you to think about that mutual friend several different times over the course of a few days or even weeks. The next thing you know, the actual friend you've had brought to your mind will call you, or you'll see them at a restaurant "coincindently". Coinkidink? I don't think so. This is evidence that what we see going on around us is not all there is unfolding. There seems to be so much more. A series of encounters that oldest popcorn daughter and I had this week has this whole synchronicity thing on my mind. It made me realize the precision timing required for this kind of chance encounter to occur transcends random commonalities in our schedules. We ran into an old friend of hers at Walgreen's. They chatted for a few minutes and then we left. She asked if he was "still dating so and so?" I said that "No, he doesn't date her, blah-de-blah does." "Oh" she said and that was the end of it...we thought. We drove to Target, and as we were searching for a parking place, daughter points and says, "Isn't that so and so's mom???" Yes, indeed it was the girl's mom that we had just been discussing only a parking lot away. This oddly happening after several years of not discussing these people with each other! The only thing I can think to do when something this jaw dropping happens is immediately pray for these individuals who have clearly been put in front of me for a reason. The timing is too perfect to ignore. Perhaps their guardian angels are synchronizing their footsteps with ours to prompt prayers for God's extra loving care for that moment. Is it possible that a situation in their life needs immediate prayer from us? Or is the other way around? Perhaps we're the one in need of prayer. Who knows? Do things like this happen to you? Next time it does, take a second to offer a little prayer for these angels unaware. Hopefully, they're returning the favor.