Saturday, January 17, 2004. In the early morning hours today, I am overwhelmed to share with you what happened less than three hours ago. Last night, Friday night (January 16, 2004), after my husband turned off my car engine (which he had running to re-charge the battery), he came into my home office to kiss me goodnight. He said, smiling, "As I turned off your car, its clock read 11:11 PM."

"What does that mean?" I asked.

And he said, "That's the sign of God."

My husband and I have been married 37 years and during that time we have experienced a lot of coincidences. We have always, rather half-heartedly, believed that these occurrences were signs that we were meant to be together. Tonight, however, while I didn't say so, I did recognize the 11:11 as a curious set of numbers that we both frequently seemed to notice, AM or PM. Instead of reacting with a familiar, "Ooooo," I challenged him with, "How do you know that? Where did you learn that 11:11 was a symbol for God?"

He answered me lightly, saying, "I don't know. It just is." And then he went to bed.

As I mentioned, I was in my office at that time, seated at my computer. Immediately I went online in search of the phrase "symbols of God," then "numbers of God," "numbers meaning God," etc., etc. After two and a half hours of scouring web site after web site, I had not found one that even alluded to 1111 or its relationship to God.

So I drifted off into searching for a totally unrelated subject, "coincidences," about which I am currently writing a book. I had temporarily forgotten about the four "1's" and was "coincidentally" drawn to your web site. For about an hour I read from link to link and then turned to the meditation, "Expecting 'Coincidences' to Happen." I was astonished to read in its third paragraph, "seeing the numbers 1111. . .realizing it was a sign that their angels were in touch with them." This was a coincidence I was not expecting and it has left me more intrigued and more in awe of the power of synchronicity than ever before .

Deej (Donnajean) Richter

Western Colorado

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Posted 1-22-04