Coincidence or Godincidence?

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, was celebrated this year on Sept 17th and 18th. It just so happens these are the two days Mary had her garage sale. What is extraordinary about this is that Mary was letting go of all her “things”, those idols in her life, feeling disgusted over it, and repenting before God for such a waste of money and energy. It was a time of repentance and forgiveness. What is remarkable about this was the perfect timing for it all. For Yom Kippur is all about repentance and forgiveness and idolatry.
Mary had known about this from university but had gone online to research a little bit more it. She read from one site:

Yom Kippur commemorates the day that G d forgave the Jewish people for the sin of the Golden Calf. Forty days after hearing G d say at Mount Sinai: "You shall not have the gods of others in My presence; you shall not make for yourself a graven image," the Jews committed the cardinal sin of idolatry. Moses spent nearly three months on top of the mountain pleading with G d for forgiveness, and on the tenth of Tishrei it was finally granted: "I have pardoned, as you have requested."(www.chabad.org)

Mary shook her head in the remarkable coincidence of the timing of this. Here she was disposing of all these other gods, her golden calves. And she was still at it. Since the sale Mary had parcelled up possibly a hundred tiny porcelain dolls to send to her great niece. Her efforts would continue until she no longer felt the presence of the heaviness of all these icons in her home.
Mary was determined to do this especially since she realized the prophets words of encouragement that she had recently heard began with a period of Atonement. This period of blessing was now connected (for Mary anyways) at a deeper level to the meanings surrounding the actual event in history. Mary was dealing with idolatry just as the Israelites were in the Bible.
As Mary continued to read the article posted on this site she recognized that at this time the Jewish people were to gave “extra charity”! That idea struck Mary as very important right now as she still hadn’t done anything with the money from the yard sale. Perhaps she needed to give it as she had planned to the girl down the street.
Robin was not interested in giving too much of the money away as there was a lot of debt. This disappointed Mary but she knew she must respect her husband and trust God even in his differing opinion. No gift would be blessed if there was conflict and division of its distribution. So Mary decided to wait longer and see what God would do. For the moment she delighted that God seemed to be guiding her life right now and all of this was part of His plan. Was it coincidence or Godincidence? Mary smiled to herself at the question. There was only one answer.