I will likely come back to the notion of synchronicity from time to time. I recently heard someone say that coincidence is anything but an accident, indeed it is when two things come together perfectly, like two pieces of the same puzzle.

So with that in mind… a friend asked me a question that had me looking for information on Emerson, as in Ralph Waldo… and one of the first pages I came upon was this Service by Rev. Elizabeth A. Lerner for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring Maryland, titled “Gratitude for the Come-From-Behind Horse“.

The whole service is very worthwhile reading, but I really wanted to share here the last bit…

In such wondrous forms, life grows and fills this world, seas and sky with loveliness, scent, activity and richness that inspire us and our neighbors. Some of us hold power now, or will hold power one day and then it will be to us to honor all the good in the world with our own actions and forbearance and generosity. Therefore, let us seek out and recognize and remember the surprise and profundity of our own revelatory, inspiring moments. Be they a cloudy day or night, or the miraculous achievements of a come-from-behind-horses, earthily and every day, mundane and marvelous, creation tells us: this is not all there is, you are not all you will be, there is more for all of us, dark is succeeded by light, death by life. As we honor the lessons of generations, the world slowly, unevenly, slipping at times, regaining its footing, becomes better. Believe not in the odds of fear and misgiving. Cast your lot with the miracles and hope that is all around us, awaiting only our eyes and ears and touch and faith.