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Good morning.

What do we make of it when strange coincidences happen? You hear a piece of music, or make a connection with an old friend or familiar place, or are reminded of a dream you once had, and the whole experience feels strangely significant. Perhaps the thing that’s caught your attention pops up again once or twice in quick succession, as if to underline that you’re

supposed to take notice of it.
Many people put this sort of experience down to luck.  Others say, mysteriously, ‘Somebody’s trying to tell me something’.  Some of us may wonder if there’s something more significant going on that we need to take notice of.

Carl Jung, the great 20th century psychiatrist, wrote about a phenomenon called ‘synchronicity’.  He described this as an acausal connecting principle – something to explain the relationship between events in terms other than that of simple cause and effect.
Jung described a female patient who was particularly resistant to being helped. Every time he tried to enable her to open up her feelings this highly educated young woman responded with a clear, rational argument.

Then, in a therapy session, she began to talk about a dream she’d had the night before in which she was given a golden scarab brooch.  As she spoke, Jung heard a tapping on the window of the darkened consulting room. He opened it to find a golden/green scarab beetle flying in. He caught it and handed it to her saying: ‘Here is your scarab.’ Her resistance to talking about her feelings broke down and her real treatment began.
Some people call these sort of events ‘Godincidences’.

Ever present God, keep me open to the ways you may speak to me through events and people today,
Amen