Strands of Fate?

I don't really believe in coincidences. So when someone comes into my life in a very unexpected way, it's certainly considered worth my notice. Yet, there are some things that are a little too perfect. In fact, they are so perfectly orchestrated, it leaves a person wondering "what is so important about this circumstance?"

No matter what your opinion on the movie Meet Joe Black, there is certainly an element there of perfectly timed circumstance (the early scene in the diner). Now take that scene, and the 'coincidences' of the things said, and then multiply it several times over. That would bring you to the situation where I currently reside.

Why, for example, would someone who graduated from my alma mater and grew up in PA, randomly end up with my screen name on his buddy list? How is it possible that our time overlapped at such a small school and we never met while at school? How is it possible that he roomed with some of my friends and we never met? He has connections to Austria. I have connections to Hungary (see the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He has a wine collection. I wish I had a wine collection... There are more connections that I could draw, but for the sake of sparing you (from the background of each), I will let them be. It is only now, several years later, while we live in the same Western state, hundreds of miles apart, that we are finally able to meet.

I have no idea what the purpose of this connection is or why it wasn't made sooner. I can only speculate. I know, from experience, that timing is everything. Timing combined with life circumstance... is like cooking. If you are missing one essential ingredient, the bread doesn't rise, the brownies turnout hard, the pudding doesn't gel. I feel the Spirit move more at this point in my life than I did earlier. I can see much better how things may fit together. I can see purpose, direction, reasons for things to be the way they are as I move from one step to another. I am very interested to see how something with so many parallel strands will turn out. It can only influence many things to come. I feel that any fruit from this plant will be good, but not just good, great. I just wait to see the exact type.