Exactly. I try very hard to take something from each encounter, believing that God put me there for a reason, either for myself or for the other. But ya gotta love the interaction!

I was just rethinking, before coming into the forum, about Romans 8:28 For we know all things work together for good...

in the Greek the base word is the word we get "synergy" from... so, to me, there is no "chance" encounters. So even your posting this is trying to tell me something...God's synergy and grand plan of things.