Carol's Corner

We had spent the day in Moose Jaw, SK at a provincial horse event where our youngest daughter, Amee, helped in the stalls with CK Horse Horizons team. Amee’s love of horses was relatively new and she relished the time of learning and hanging out with horse people. With Saskatoon almost in sight, a passing half ton truck flung a stone which smashed against the windshield on the driver’s side. It hit with such force we all thought it would come right through the glass, shattering the windshield.

We discussed whether to stop at the glass shop on our way home or take a chance the huge chip would not spread overnight and we could get it fixed tomorrow. We chose to stop on our way home. The shop had time to work on it before they closed.

The waiting room was almost empty – only one other lady occupied it. As much as we tried not to eavesdrop on her phone conversation, it became apparent she was negotiating the sale of one of her horses. Her attire suggested a very sheik cowgirl. It fascinated me to think that we were on our way home from a horse event and now shared the waiting room with a cowgirl selling a horse.

We began visiting once she completed her call and discovered she owned a guest ranch outside the city. She raised and trained horses, had guests come from around the world and trained coaches and trainers of horses. Our fascinating conversation drew to a close when both of our cars were ready.

As we exited the building, still chatting and saying our goodbyes, we also exchanged business cards. She looked at mine which reads Carol Harrison: Speaker & Author and asked me what I spoke and wrote about. I shared a bit about my love of storytelling. She grew excited and told me to contact her since she had been praying for God to send a writer into her life to help her edit workshop material and letters.

A serious stone chip in our windshield forced us to stop at the glass shop where we met Mable who had been one hour late arriving for her appointment because she honestly thought it was at the later time. Was this a coincidence or a divine appointment.

Merriam Webster dictionary defines coincidence as events that happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected.

A Divine Appointment is defined as a meeting with another person that has been specifically and unmistakably ordained by God

It took me almost six weeks to phone Mable and set up an appointment to meet at her ranch to see if we could have a good working relationship. By then she had looked at my website and read the first couple blog posts I had written. I choose to believe, as does Mable, that coincidences don’t really happen but Divine appointments do, when we least expect them. I have helped her with editing, sat in a workshop to learn more about what she does and we chat often on the phone. We feel a strong connection and a developing friendship all because of a meeting at the shop to repair broken glass.

Do you have stories of these types of appointments? What happened?