Spiritual Prompt for the Week of April 17th — 23rd
I get many wonderful comments to my deep prompts but I see very few prompsponsive creations so today I go with the hopefully more accessible spiritual and cosmic nature of coincidence
I wonder how many readers are thinking to themselves, “What’s that you say Marcus, what is spiritual and cosmic about happenstance?”
Well, I say, with a sigh, to any dear reader thinking this, “Don’t feel bad, as I see people get this wrong on Medium every day, but you don’t know the god damn definition of coincidence — it does not mean happenstance!! It means that there is causation but of a metaphysical or spiritual nature.”
As you can tell from my tone, for which I do not ask your forgiveness, the common misuse and misunderstanding of the word coincidence, as demonstrated by the all-too-often seen statements of “I don’t believe in coincidence” and “no mere coincidence” are pet peeves of mine that make me want to scream, “wake up!”
The Oxford Dictionary defines coincidence thusly: “a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection” [emphasis added].
