British writer Horace Walpole believed serendipity is related to an attitude of mind and heart that attracts and enhances joy.
Synchronicity - a string of events that seem to be highly symbolic and meaningful in nature. It is a meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
The law of synchronicity operates from the belief that our souls attract people, places and events into our lives that help us to grow, develop, make meaning and evolve in consciousness.
In his book The Way of the Shaman, anthropologist Michael Harner says that among shamanic cultures synchronicities are considered “a kind of homing beacon analogous to a radio directional signal indicating that the right procedures and methods are being employed.”
Synchronicities are minor miracles, little mysteries that point to a bigger one, perhaps a central one, of which we're all a part. When I think about the synchronicities in my life, I wonder at their meaning After all, they're rather astonishing.
Astonishment would well describe the discover that both my husband and I were related to owners of an 18th Century plantation house we lived in near Gretna, Virginia. Read about the Jesse Mustain House.
My mind was blown when I discovered my 5th cousin built the 1905 Kansas City home that Gary and I purchased and restored in 1979. Virginia roots are deep and strong.
All the churches in my area of the former German colonies in Russia had been destroyed... but they hadn't. I got to see the church at Gnadentau and steeple my great grandfather built.
Then there was the time I traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, to do some genealogy research and visit the home of my Volga German great grandfather who had immigrated from Russia. I walked to the front door of the house to request permission to take photos only to discover the sign stating it was the museum of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
There are more of these large "ah ha" moments, but there are also smaller ones that are equally amazing.
Little miracles. Magic. Whispers of my ancestors.
My stories:
The Jesse Mustain House: History of Ownership - the Enslaved and Slave Cemetery
The Church at Gnadentau - A Silent Witness
The Shelby Daniel House at 3537 Virginia Ave, Kansas City, Missouri
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