No Coincidences

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Stories in this episode: Adam's mission is more overwhelming than he expected, leading him to doubt whether he’s in the right place when suddenly a companion's photo puts everything into focus; LeAnn finds a perfectly placed dad joke in her scriptures at just the right moment; Becky’s hopes to adopt are finally fulfilled, but she faces heartache in her relationship with her child until an unexpected dinner guest gives her just the answer she needs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to This Is The Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from
0:08.4	real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Corinne Leigh, and I'm guessing that you haven't spent much time thinking
0:16.8	about the word coincidence.
0:18.2	I mean, why would you?
0:20.6	But we've been saying that word so many times as we've developed the stories for this theme
0:25.8	that I started wondering what it really means.
0:28.8	So are you ready for an amateur etymology lesson?
0:32.2	Here we go.
0:33.2	Coincidence.
0:34.2	Co, meaning with or together, and incidents from incidere, I'm sure I said that wrong,
0:42.6	but that's Latin for to fall upon or into, and then ends.
0:47.7	Coincidence.
0:48.7	Listen, I tried to look that one up, but it was above my pay grade.
0:52.4	So the thing that's most important for us to know is that when two things co-inside,
0:58.8	it means that they intersect or they meet.
1:01.3	And a coincidence is a moment in time when two things fall together naturally.
1:06.6	No human interference.
1:08.2	No one trying to make it happen.
1:10.6	It just happens.
1:12.8	And aren't we all just a little bit obsessed with coincidences?
1:16.1	I mean, weird ones, crazy ones, magical ones.
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