Dates with Destiny?

From an Islamic point of view, nothing is left to coincidence or chance. Everything is destined by God (except the things we do by ourselves)...

Yes, I believe I am meant to meet some people. And I believe that there is wisdom behind meeting those people. That's why I always ask myself: " What does God want me to learn from these people?"....
 
Alex P said:
Just curious, anyone ever met someone and thought, I was meant to meet you?
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I know it was true in my case regarding an influence. Actually your question is essential to "synchronicity" which Carl Jung championed. It refers to patterns that repeat in time.
 
I'd say were destined to meet all people! The way which we meet people is very important to me because under different circumstances of your shared frame you could have a whole different view and relationship with them..
 
Ok, miracle time! One time I was looking at an apartment, years ago. I was going to move out of my parents house finally and split the rent with a church brother. I was weighing the costs, because I was not sure and I prayed in my mind "If you want me to stay here, please let me meet someone I know that will tell me its a good place to live." Immediately I walked around the end of a block of apartments and ran into another person from the same church. He and his wife & kids were renting an apartment from the same block of apartments and when asked he said it was a good place to live. Now the city where we lived had over 200,000 people. I'd say the apartment was about 2 miles from the church, which had about 1500 regular congregants. The city had hundreds of churches and probably I-don't-know 50-100 thousand Christians. The timing was the thing, because it was not more than 1 minute from the time I prayed to the time I ran into a person whom I already knew personally. True story.
 
I believe I was meant to meet my husband. Meeting him was not like meeting a person I didn't know; it was like becoming reacquainted with a very old and dear friend. I think I've relayed the story somewhere on the board before- it's fairly romantic and spiffy, I think. :) We met on a blind date... a blind date of me and some other guy. :p

I have a fairly complicated view of why I was meant to meet him, but even if I'm wrong, our "date with destiny" makes for a great story. I will say that it has not made marriage any easier or made it so we don't make mistakes and have to learn, but there is a purpose behind our marriage that I feel I would not have if I didn't feel that our destinies are entwined.

As for other people, I feel that most people I meet, if I am open to it, are opportunities for my and their spiritual growth. I suppose I think destiny is all around us, if we are open to it. But that sort of thing is quite distinctive from what I felt upon meeting my husband- a sort of "Wow, have we been gone for a long time- hello again!" feeling that I've never recaptured with anyone else. I have fallen in love with other people, and it is a very different thought/feeling. It is also distinct from the sort of synchronicity that I think operates in the universe and brings me certain people I need to interact with at certain times. It was very distinct and, so far in my life, unique.

Now what will really blow my mind is if we have kids one day and I have the same feeling-- that I have known them for eons. But I don't expect it. I expect to be delighted, but to feel like it is a little being I have not known before.
 
l certainly didn't feel l 'knew' my kids when they were born but it certainly brought back rememberances of my own womb like existence and connected me to the universal creativity of Motherhood. l wondered wow new souls who are maybe [probably-indigo children?!] older souls than l and looking into their eyes it was 'meant to be'. dont think anything can compare. yeh l believe in group souls- and of course your enemy has a message to take note of too.
 
Destiny, synchronicity, coincidence, divine?

Let's see, on the side of the middle two...

I bumped shoulders whilst walking out a bar with a friend from Nevada. The only thing is, if we didn't bump shoulders, we'd never have seen each other, we'd have walked by each other and never known we were in the same town. You see this was during Mardi Gras New Orleans, years after I moved from Nevada to Maryland...we both happened to be walking thru the same door frame at the same time each thousands of miles from home...and bumped shoulders.

Spencerport NY a town that has grown over the years. It now has 3,559 people in it. My Mom and Dad's graduating class was 31 kids. In the past five years I've met five people who grew up with my parents. Last one was last weekend on a plane back from Phoenix Arizona to Baltimore Maryland. She was on a window seat, the row behind and across the aisle from me. Thru conversation I learned that my mother baby sat her when she was little, and thru conversation with my mom I learned when my grandfather had a heart attack her father treated him. They lived across the street three doors down...about the same relationship their houses were to my seating arrangements on the plane... (note I live in Maryland, have business meetings in the southwest US, all these contacts with who knew my mom and dad were associated with these trips (for those who don't know Spencerport in northeast US about 2,500 miles away)

As for the divine destiny types... Good chance I wouldn't be alive had the gal I ended up marrying not picked me up hitchiking...not that the hitchike was an issue...we didn't get married till 5 years later but my life was in a spiral that typically ends up underground or behind bars. Of course now she has moved on...and she may have only been around to facilitate the change...
 
Absolutely. I met my wife when I wasn't looking, but was an answer to prayer I had anyway. There were too many coincidences involved not to think God wasn't involved. Not say everything was perfect, but definitely destined to be together.
 
My wife and I met through a set of circumstances that could have easily ended with us never getting together.

Dondi sees these coincidences as proof of God.

I see these coincidences as coincidences.

Randomness can be a beautiful thing.
 
I tend to see the rational side to randomness.. But like say for instance love usually sparks off when people have alot in common. We meet many people on a daily basis it could have just so happened that you bumped into someone that was your match and maybe she realised it more then you at that time. But at the same time I believe because it was that specific person at that time that there was meaning to it.
 
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