Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Serendipity Gets a Kick in the Pants

Sam Ruby wrote about Manufactured Serendipity being the act of putting in place factors that would increase the chance of something wonderful and coincidental happening.

Well, this time, serendipity has gotten help from two actions I took spontaneously.  I suppose I was actually practicing the manufacture of serendipity.  I posted Joshua Claybourn's request for ideas to take to an "Innovation Forum" in Indianapolis that mixes local pastors with web-savvy people to see what comes out of it.

My first action that helped things along was adding my weblog to the blogs4god list.  Suddenly, Mean Dean and Joshua Claybourn had both read my weblog.  So I started camping out on those weblogs and, surprise, I see Joshua's post--serendipity!

The second action I took was to post a link to his request on the ICCM (International Conference on Computing in Missions) group on Yahoo Groups, as well as the Internet Evangelism discussion group.  To my surprise, both posts resulted in comments left on Joshua's weblog--serendipity.

Now, at least three more people have made contacts that did not exist before.  I don't know what will become of those comments or the information that they bring, but that's the point!  There could be some more serendipity happening very soon!

By the way, I know that God has all of this orchestrated.  I'm just giddy with excitement as I wait to see what happens next.
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