SYNCHRONICITY - MY FAVORITE WORD

If you recall, this months prize give-away went to new reader Becca. Her prize happened to be the book A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, and a bar of homemade lavender soap from The Bountiful Sprout. Well, like me, Becca happens to be a fan of several ex-pat blogs - blogs about people who are living in a country other than their native one. So, Becca gets her new book and dives into the whole Provencal experience, then goes to the computer to visit some of her favorite bloggers, and what does she find but this - a nice long post about Peter Mayle and his books! She immediately dashes off a note to me about the lovely "synchronicity" of it all.

Now, if you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you are bound to know that I am extremely fond of this word, used to describe happy little serendipitous coincidences. I seem to use it quite often of late. So often, in fact, that it got me to thinkin'. I'm thinking that perhaps there are always good things just waiting to fall into place for us, but we are not always open to them. When we rush through our days trying to multi-task, or spend our time worrying about what's to come or what happened in the past, I think we often miss the signs that are all around us. Once we learn to slow down and be completely present in the moment though, synchronicity abounds - our gift from the universe.