Do you believe in fate/destiny?

I’m not sure how I feel on these particular words per say…however I believe a lot of little things have to move a certain way in order for you to meet the people you meet, and I believe God puts people in your life for a reason…and he does so on his timeline.

The little man I’m dating, I didn’t connect with him in a romantic manner when I connected with him, I happened to have him as a waiter the evening my husband had me leave him in the ER and wound up in the ICU. (The hospital said it would be 72 or more hours to get him into a room and the er room he was in was tiny). My daughter and I had stopped for dinner after getting the oil changed on the truck, we happened to get him as our waiter…I went over the days events and my husbands cancer with him just as a matter of venting to another human being…he commiserated with me by telling me how his mother had not too long ago passed of cancer and how fast she went and how hard it was to understand or fathom…that stuck with me.

When my husband passed less than 2 weeks later, he was the only person I cared to tell about it. Something in how he talked to me that night had made him a trustworthy soul to me.

It was several months before anything even remotely close to friendship started, and even longer before anything past friendship blossomed.

I didn’t put that person in my life, I’d never met him before that day, however he was the kindest soul to me during one of the hardest times of my life…I don’t think that’s an accident…I think that’s God.

I don’t use fate or destiny as regular parts of my vocabulary, I guess I don’t see it that way. So no…I’m not sure I believe in those particular words.