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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes the person who decides is the person who decides to drive and text or drunk drive. [/quote]

OP here. I guess my point is - why was it THAT child on that waterslide, vs. some other child on the same day or a different day. Same with the boy at Disney. Why THAT boy that day? Even with drunk driving, which car do they hit? Its all so random. When I book a flight, I (fleetingly) think - will a plane crash this day? If so, will it be this one or that? The one time I was in a minor car accident, I was plagued with knowing that I almost drove a different route. Or what if I left 5 minutes earlier? or later?

In Disney, the movie had just ended so the family was probably about to head up anyway. AND they were leaving the next morning! What if they went to bed 5 minutes sooner? Or planned their trip a different week? I just can't even imagine...[/quote]

OP, the thoughts that you are describing are ones that every parent has. It's just a reality of the fact that you have given life to a person who is growing up in front of your eyes, and you are realizing that you cannot protect him/ her forever. This is all perfectly normal. But I will caution you that an obsession with this type of thinking is exactly one of the ways that "evil," if you will, tries to continually attack us.

God speaks very clearly in the Bible about worries, fears and anxiety. As one example, Paul writes

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7

Jesus also talks about this in the Sermon on the Mount.

I think it is our responsibility as believers to take hold of this kind of thinking, before it consumes and eventually destroys us. All of these scenarios you described are true. What if these people left earlier, what if that child arrived sooner -- on and on -- you can make yourself crazy about it. What if you had gone to a different grocery store yesterday, or driven route A instead of route B on your way to work? Who knows what differently might have happened. The point is, you cannot consume yourself with this kind of thinking. As a Christian, you take heart that God is in control and is with us through good and bad. That is why God also tells us to fill our minds with "good thoughts" and beautiful things -- not to obsess over this kind of thinking, which is the work of evil trying to draw you away from Christ.[/quote]

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