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[quote=Anonymous]There are many coincidences in life. what you describe is one of them. Also, it's possible that if you had not called out to God at that moment, you would not have noticed or interpreted all the same "signs" that were there for anyone passing by to see.

I say this not to disagree with or diminish the profound emotional experience you had, but rather to respond to your request for another interpretation of it.

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Interesting point/perspective. 50/50 chance that at that precise moment I would or would not have seen something in my field of vision that I could have interpreted as coming from a divine source. Billboard for walmart, Red Roof Inn, McDonalds etc i would NOT have interpreted as diivine. I could have seen what looked like an apparition of jesus in the dirt on my windshield or heard a random love song on the radio and thrown "it must be from God Im saved!" onto those things. Could argue that people who are in despair will grasp onto anything as a way of making their pain more palatable. To me, billboard seemed pretty unambiguous. And if it had been a song on the radio, a "vision of Mary" on my leftover pizza or a gust of wind I would, now that Im no longer in despair, take those to mean that I was so desperate at that time to believe in a benevolent God that anything would have looked like a sign.

Heres a thought...if I end up sick with cancer some day or lose a child or my husband...what will happen then if I ask for divine intervention and dont get it? I miscarried at five weeks  on my daughters birthday...so whats the "god talks to us through coincidences" logic of that? And people go through s hittier circumstances than divorce...what about all the people who asked or proof of Gods existence during Hurricane Katrina, on 9/11 or when repeated losses and tragedies happen in a single life and those people ask for proof and dont get it? [/quote]

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