Fly N Buy

As the fates would have it, here's an incident that occurred today. My SIL was taking a morning run in the town where she lives. A young man crashed his vehicle into a tree. She was the first person on the scene.

Sis is a nurse and was able to gain access into the vehicle starting chest compression and attempting to keep the person with us. It was to no avail he passed away.

My SlL questioned if she had done everything she could, was there more that could have changed the outcome...... This afternoon she is process this very sad event. I have communicated with her and reiterated that God's will is always perfect and always done. As others have stated, we simply are not even close to being able to grasp the whys.

Thy will be done, the rest is simply vanity..........understanding may or may not be revealed to us as He allows.

There is great peace to me today in the satisfaction of the unknown mystery's of life, and death.

sg1970

I just never have felt that my higher power was controlling every detail of every persons life, neither good or bad. I've never felt that if we act a certain way our life outcome changes either. Bad things happen to good people.

Sometimes I think our lives are like dice. God rolls us out into this world and what happens happens.

PAC86

There are all these kids dying of heroin overdoses recently and I don't why I didn't. I used to shoot massive amounts of dope on a daily basis for years. I only ever overdosed once and some random hippie saved my life. I never met him before and I still don't know who he is. An angle in disguise maybe?

Ken33xx

I met a fellow who spent a year in Vietnam. He said the fear was so overwhelming that you either learned to accept whatever was going to happen would happen or you'd go crazy.

tomsteve

God does send angels.

why you didnt die is as simple as this is what Gods plan for you is.
you have been in the shoes of the addict suffering and can use that experience to help another addict get clean.

skg

"Our adventures before and after make clear three pertinent things..."

NoelleR

"God's plan just doesn't make sense"

Hmm, is it written somewhere that it's supposed to make sense, or that we're supposed to be able to make sense of it, or that we're even supposed to be able to know it.......?

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fini

PAC,
you feel undeserving of having this chance, is that it? when others, who you may or may not consider "deserving" are either dead or alive? like somehow there's a scoreboard and G the keeper, busy all day planning things so that each thing makes sense to PAC?

seriously: seems time would be better spent making the best of this opportunity you have by being alive.
i'll try and do the same

skg

God's promises are attainable by every individual who seeks them.

youbetcha

Look at all the crazy stuff going on the world, why why why? I'm pretty fortunate, thanks God!

PurpleDan

Or maybe there just isn't a God and stuff just happens.

Instead of 'why me?', I ask myself 'why not me?'. I am but a speck of sand

And by the way, AIDS doesn't happen to bad people as a form of punishment. It happens to people that make unhealthy decisions. And thanks to anti-retroviral medication, those of us living and thriving with HIV won't end up developing AIDS and will live to ripe old ages.

fini

yes; i find the question "why not me?" a good one, always.
when i look at that seriously, things get pretty illuminating. both about "deserving" as well as "ja but!!!!..."
more is revealed every time i ask it

Fernaceman

If I'm thinking about all the negative things "caused" in the world by God, it's only fair to give God credit for the vast, enormous of amount of GOOD that occurs.

leftzing

Indeed, I pray for Syria every day.

Ursula745

I have never been a big fan of calling some things part of 'God's Plan". I think God gave us free will and we choose to do with it what we want. Sometimes, things just happen. There's no explaining it.

I think God is here for us to get through what we have to go through. God hears us. Sometimes, God knows more than what we know and may not intervene in our prayers because he knows best based on what the future holds. But, I don't ever think God plans us to suffer.

I think we make ourselves suffer, and God either helps us through it with strength and faith, or he may help us through it by answering our prayers differently than what we ask because he knows all. In the end, we make our choices to get where we are.

Memra

I don't know God's plan but I do believe it is better then mine in ways I would have never thought of, life is better lived through "thy will not mine".

I pray God will ruin my plans for the day keeping me out of self into a world of peace I don't control.