I hope you have enjoyed a break, if you have taken one over the festive season.  I did, I haven't written since the 18th of December.  It is always good to take some time out and do other things.  During my holiday break I was signed on to Skype the day before Christmas Eve and found a dear friend on line.  As it turned out, she was in Perth - down under spending Christmas with her parents.  We both have webcams so we got to see one another and I got to meet her mother on line for the first time.  I smiled at the thought of what was occurring.  Sat in the comfort of my office chair I am talking to, and looking at, somebody who is at the other side of the world.  I love to be able to do those wonderful things.

I shouldn't really be surprised where this friend is concerned.  We have had some extra-ordinary life experiences which have drawn us together, taken us apart again and then one day in July of 2007 after 15 years of not seeing one another something stranger than fiction happened.  I was helping a friend move into her new flat in West London when I overhead somebody taking messages off a telephone answering machine.  As my friend was talking to herself and repeating the name of the last caller on the answer-phone, to give to her landlady, I heard the name of my friend Sarah who I had lost contact with.  When the landlady arrived home and her messages were passed on, I asked her if by any chance this person called Sarah was the one that I had said goodbye to about 15 years ago at Heathrow Terminal 3 as she was heading out to India.  As it turned out, it was the very same person.  Not only that, she was best of friends with this lady that I have only met 2 days prior.  When I spoke to Sarah that evening, she told me that she had been thinking about me and she was not in the least bit surprised that I had shown up. 

You may have heard that expression that 'people come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime' and I always think about this when I meet new people or are re-acquainted with old ones.  Destiny has a way of putting people together, making connections so that their work can be done.  Who would ever have believed that I could have re-established contact with somebody who I had no idea where she was.  I smile each day that little miracles like this show up and of course I keep looking for them all the more.  Look for your miracles and notice them showing up.