03/02/2009
by Patricia Raskin

Here’s what happened:

I was in the final stages of producing a television documentary on Positive Aging in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. My production team had decided to end the documentary with an older gentleman who had been featured in the closing segment. The elderly man came to a final editing session with a collection of photographs he thought would be perfect for the ending. When we disagreed about several of his selections, he became difficult. He finally stormed out of the studio, leaving me without a completed documentary and without very much time to find available talent.

I sat in the conference room wondering how on earth I was going to fix the "broken" ending, when the studio's receptionist entered the conference room unannounced. She was carrying a package addressed to me. I was flabbergasted. I only worked in the studio once a month, so any mail addressed to me usually laid in my in-box, awaiting my arrival. This particular package arrived and was delivered to me the day I was there.

The package contained a national press release from Houston, Texas announcing a senior sports classics competition. One of the people featured was a 102-year-old golfer named Harley Potter. He was from – you guessed it – Winston Salem. I’m sitting in a conference room at the Fox TV affiliate in Winston-Salem approximately 20 minutes away from an centenarian who would be the perfect closing story for my documentary.

I called his 75-year-old daughter and she arranged for me to meet them at the local club where he played golf almost daily. The rest, as they say, is history – or should I say miraculous history. When events like this unfold, I believe there has to be a guiding hand that waves some sort of cosmic wand that transforms ordinary experiences into extraordinary events.

I believe the “spiritual economics” of miracles were at work here, making it possible for all of us to be in the same place at the same time for the same event. I believe we receive multiple miracles every day in the form of coincidences and chances.

http://www.intent.com/blog/2009/03/02/one-million-perfect-coincidental-miracle