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I was in church this past Sunday and this woman was talking about her childhood. She said that her stepfather was tremendously abusive and abused them constantly so she always kept a window open so she and her brothers can leave in the event he came upstairs to abuse them. She never went to church as a child, but for some reason, found herself kneeling down and praying to God, not really knowing who He was, asking that the guy would up and leave because he was a crazy SOB! Anyway, she prayed and prayed, keeping her window open all day and all night for a year. One day, she and her brothers were playing in the living room, crawling through the window, in and out of the house and back again, just being kids. The abusive father got tired of the noise and left, never to be seen again. She always felt the window was her salvation and it was the window that made him leave. You can think of this as coincidence or divine intervention, but I was wondering if anyone has experienced anything such as this.
Hey Saucy
Thats a really sad story. Thank goodness that wicked man disapeared. I do not believe this to be divine intervention
but more to do with either the power of positive thinking or more likely weird and lucky coincidence.
Something happened to me once, something that in theory should not of happened, I would rather not say what it was but I was focusing so long and so hard on it, that it became a reality. The power of the mind is very errr Powerful!
Lottie
Thats a really sad story. Thank goodness that wicked man disapeared. I do not believe this to be divine intervention
but more to do with either the power of positive thinking or more likely weird and lucky coincidence.Something happened to me once, something that in theory should not of happened, I would rather not say what it was but I was focusing so long and so hard on it, that it became a reality. The power of the mind is very errr Powerful!
Lottie
I have no story to tell, but I just had to say my opinion. I don't beleive in coincidences. Everything and I mean everything happens for a reason. Not a coinincidence.
Devine intervention works for all of us every day in the most suttle of ways. I comes to us in different forms. One form is so called "coincidence", another is "power of suggestion" another "visions", and another in mysterious human form etc. Just today my friend told me that her car made terrible noises. She was about 4 miles from the next exit. She chugged along at about 40 miles an hour. Took the next exit, and was able to coast into a gas station when her car quit running. Devine intervention or coincident? This type of situation has happened to me about three times in my life.
there's a word for these kinds of "wierd coincidences"- LUCK
chances are, that a car will make strange noises before it dies- nothing divine here. And the stepfather either left cause he just couldn't handle the kids or for some other kind of reason the kids knew nothing about. I personally stick to scietific evidence and reason before I go onto the paranormal track
chances are, that a car will make strange noises before it dies- nothing divine here. And the stepfather either left cause he just couldn't handle the kids or for some other kind of reason the kids knew nothing about. I personally stick to scietific evidence and reason before I go onto the paranormal track
NO such thing as "LUCK". LUCK cannot be scientifically proven anymore than Devine Intervention can be proven. You cannot mearsure or quantify either one. If you do believe in LUCK, then Devine Intervention would also be a plausable explanation. There is not a written record of LUCK going back for thousands of years; however, there is a written record of Devine Intevention as per the Bible.
The thing is, she always saw the window as her salvation and in the end, it was. It is the reason why he left and he never came back! Why wouldn't he come back? He was obviously in a drunkin stuper and after stumbling around stupidly for a few hours and maybe passed out somewhere, she surely would've woken up and came back home. That's the way most abusive drunks work. It wasn't divine intervention that the car started to make noise, but that it made it to the gas station and the minute it did, it died. It could've easyly died right out in the middle of nowhere or right on a lane on a major highway, but it was able to coast right in and be saved! Please, keep telling your stories.
I hate it when something good happens and somebody says "It's just luck or you were lucky!" Especially when it was a skill of yours I hate so called luck. 
| QUOTE (cardy4 @ May 11 2004, 07:19 AM) |
| NO such thing as "LUCK". LUCK cannot be scientifically proven anymore than Devine Intervention can be proven. You cannot mearsure or quantify either one. If you do believe in LUCK, then Devine Intervention would also be a plausable explanation. There is not a written record of LUCK going back for thousands of years; however, there is a written record of Devine Intevention as per the Bible. |
Let me just remind everyone here that not all of us here follow the Bible. And that luck is coincedence- so many things happen the wrong way for us that the laws of chance require for something good to happen once in a while. Otherwise known as, a bit of "luck". I do believe in Divine intervention, but not in these cases...there's a fine line between religion and science...how do I explain this....The only reason there is no written down record of luck because people either considered it "divine intervention", like some of us are doing now, or the experience was just so insignificant that it wasn't worth recording. I mean, the scholar of some ancient kingdom isn't going to write down in the royal documents that so-and-so found a piece of gold on the floor, or that the weather was juuuussst right on so-and-so's wedding day. They've got better things to do! And as for personal diaries, NO ONE COULD WRITE!! Only a select few scholars could or cared to do so. And they just made livings out of it, I personally doubt they decided to write down there personal lives- I mean you can only make so many clay tablets and roll out so many papyrus leaves. They were probably saved for more important things.
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