Aug 2, 2007
I was watching the news coverage of the unfortunate bridge collapse in Minneapolis and I heard one of the news people ask this question of someone who wasn't involved in the accident, but could have been.
Did you ask yourself, there but for the grace of God goes me?
The person being interviewed stopped at a store on her way to the bridge and just missed the collapse. Presumably, had she not stopped, she would have been on the bridge when it collapsed. Sometimes you get lucky.
As I have posted many times, I don't subscribe to this whole God business, but if I did, I would object to the question. The question presupposes that God made a decision to collapse the bridge and to kill a bunch of motorists, or at least to allow their deaths, while sparing others. I know it is just an expression, but it is an odd notion, if you ask me.
The Seafood King, Some Guy Named Bob and I played golf this morning. It was overcast and the temperatures were in the eighties. It was glorious. My new golf clubs are beginning to really fell comfortable to me and my game is improving, although my scoring less so.
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It's also a kind of weird backward logic that is pointless. About a million people COULD have been on that bridge that day.
The God I worship isn't a large version of a human being, so it isn't like He/She/It can make decisions about bridges and individuals.
I'm fascinated by synchronicities - that someone stopped at the supermarket and thereby saved their own life. I've heard dozens of stories from 9/11 from people who would have been up in the towers except they stopped uncharacteristically at the dry cleaners or whatever.
To me this is the mark of some kind of survival instinct, masking itself as a need to go pick up the dry cleaning. Animals ran uphill as fast as they could before the tsunami. They knew. We know these things, too.
Sometimes, though, it's your day to be on the bridge. Everyone is going to have a day like that at some point. Better on a bridge that falls than in a hospital bed, hooked up to a million machines, at least that's what I think.
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