That's a great story.
A friend of mine with lots of sobriety and AA under his belt always says - nothing is a coincidence in God's world. I scoffed at that for a long time, because I'm not a religious person and I didn't really believe that "God" has a plan all worked out for each and every one of us.
However. Enough things have happened in my life and in the lives of others in the years since I started my sobriety journey that can't really be explained by coincidence that I do believe that somehow, things do happen for a reason. The flow of the universe, or just that we are paying more attention to these things? Seeing the miracles for a change? Finding the miracles in everyday events? I don't know. But I do know that my faith is stronger than ever that there's a force at work of some kind. Higher power, for sure.