"The coherence of our own life is perhaps best suited to illustrate what we mean. In ordinary speech we distinguish between what is 'planned' or 'well-designed' — and this appears simultaneously as 'meaningful' and 'intelligible' — from what is merely 'accidental' and which seems by itself meaningless and unintelligible. For example, I intend to pursue certain studies and to this end select a university which promised to provide some special incentive in my chosen field. Here we have a meaningful and intelligible coherence of motives and circumstances. But the fact that in that particular university town I make the acquaintance of a person who is "accidentally' matriculated at the same institution and that one day I 'accidentally' become engaged in talking on questions regarding an outlook on life — this seems at first glance hardly a thoroughly intelligible coherence of events. And yet when, many years later, I reflect upon my life, it becomes clear to me that this particular conversation turned out to be of decisive significance for my life, that it was perhaps more 'essential' than all my studies so that now I am inclined to think that this encounter may have been 'precisely the reason' why I 'had to go' to that town. In other words, what did not lie in my plan lay in God's plans. And the more often such things happen to me the more lively becomes in me the conviction of my faith that — from God's point of view — nothing is accidental, that my entire life, even in the most minute details, was pre-designed in the plans of divine providence and is thus for the all-seeing eye of God a perfect coherence of meaning. Once I begin to realize this, my heart rejoices in anticipation of the light of glory in whose sheen this coherence of meaning will be fully unveiled to me."