Coincidence?

I read somewhere, once that when you become a Christian, you start to realize how much God has been at work in your life. I think what they were getting at was that the things you took to be luck before maybe are not just some random events that happen to take place in an order and time that was just right for you to end up doing something at the exact time that it needed to be done.

Is it coincidence that I happen to go to a college in a town where I will work with someone that will end up moving to Florida, somewhere I had never been before? That I will feel lead to go there to visit and end up moving there myself? That I would change jobs and happen to meet the girl I would end up marrying?

Maybe. But, I think not.

It is easier to attribute positive things to a 'Higher Power', but what about things that are not all that good for you? Recent negative events have also made me take a look at how God is working in my life. I have a POC Truck. It provides me with forward movement, but not much mort than that.

My truck decided not too long ago that it would prefer it if I were dead. So, it decided that it would leak exhaust into the cab. Just to note, I do not believe that adamant objects, i.e. my truck, have a conscience. I am just suggesting that if my truck did have the ability to make decisions, I would deduce that it had made the decision to relieve me of this world.

Anyway, my truck is broke. This leads me to the conclusion that I need to shell out money on another vehicle. So, I decide to buy another car. Then, I go have my truck looked at and it only cost me $45 to get it "fixed". By this time I had already told someone that I wanted to buy their car. So, I am the future owner of two cars. Sort of unnecessarily, but not completely.

So, now I have to pay for this second car. This means I have to take money from somewhere else to pay for it. So, instead of paying down debt, I use that money to buy a car. I was not completely happy with this situation. This puts me off track on the pay off debt buy a house plan.

So, then I find out that my friend's car decided it did not want to move voluntarily anymore. Again, cars can't decide anything, but they would if they could. Viola, I have two cars and he needs one. Perfect.

Then, I find out yesterday that I am getting a bonus from work. It just some happens that the bonus is about the some as what I paid for the second car.

All this is to say that I think it is some statistical impossibility for al the things previously mentioned to occur and for me to come out of the last month: Owning two cars, having a friend in need of a car, all the while not really changing anything in my finances.

Coincidence? Maybe. But, I think not.