I find this topic endlessly fascinating. If you do not believe in God, then it is "serendipity" or chance. Believers know differently! It's not so simple though, as sometimes prayers are answered and some are not.
One of my little frustrations in life is when I sell something on ebay and cannot locate it! It makes me look bad. I don't want to disappoint people. I try to keep like things together but sometimes pull out the used stamp sets for example, for a project. It might still be in a box next to my bed. I may put that designer paper that I got slightly curved, under a stack to straight it out. The stamp rollers and ribbons have fallen out of the baskets or bins without my seeing them , until later. I think my cat also jumps up on the table to grab small items to play with. A few times after searching an hour, I have said a little prayer to St. Andrew or is it St. Anthony... the saint of missing things? Evidently he hasn't cared that I got his name right.
Once I prayed when I couldn't find some designer paper. I then thought, maybe you mixed it up with your own personal ones when you sorted and listed some? Sure enough it was under those. Recently I KNEW I had this set. I only kept them in one place. I moved them around on the shelf to try to find out where it was hiding. I prayed... a voice in my head said, go look under the shelves in that bin below. I did and under two other sets that had fallen off the shelf, there was the set I was looking for. another time I was looking for a "print pack". I kept them all together ... I thought. After I prayed that time, it was like a voice said, look down... and there it was under some sets of ink spots that are the same size. When I first looked I thought it was all ink spots there.
Then there are the more major things. You miss a flight and the plane crashes. How many people should have been in the Twin Towers 9/11 at 9 AM on a Tuesday? And three planes went down as well as the Pentagon hit? The loss of life was very sad and upsetting, but surely God intervened that so many were spared. I remember at the time reading stories about people who missed their train, didn't feel well and all kinds of things that kept them from being there. The total loss of life for both towers, the pentagon and 3 planes was about 3300..
I looked on craigslist for a free TV after a second one quit working. It had just been listed. It was near my daughter's house. I went over there and it was HUGE. The young college guys said it worked well but they were going their own ways and it was too big. I hesitated but they loaded it into my SUV, along with the stand. I saw the remote and grabbed it. It was SOOO heavy I couldn't move it at all. They said the TV weighed over 240 pounds. I don't have 4 strong men at my house to move things around so it's been in the SUV for two weeks.
I was on my way to a friends house who has a dog. I brought my dog along so they could play. The back seats were down for the TV and stand but he had about 18 inches of room in front of it. Well a light ahead was turning yellow and I would have been entering the intersection when it had turned red. I decided to break. I heard a crash in back as the TV hurtled forward and a yelp from my dog. My heart was pounding and images of a crushed dog were in my head with me unable to free him. he crawled through the space between the front seats, shaking, into my arms, without a scratch on him. The TV had tipped forward and the top was leaning against the front seats. He was in the space in the bottom.
I was very grateful to God for sparing my dog! He was still shaking when we got to my friend's house. Then he met her dog and went off to play!
I have prayed for healing for people with very serious illness and had them completely healed. Many others were also praying for them. Part of you thinks, was this God or maybe the surgery took care of it? Somehow the little things like immediately having an idea of where something that was missing is prove to me clearly that God is willing to help us even in small ways when we ask. Do I think this God of the universe has nothing to do but hear each of our little concerns? Maybe it's guardian angels who take care of the little stuff!
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