One of the most profound experiences of my life, one which can only be explained as an Almighty Coincidence, came about at a time of great emotional anguish. It is said that if a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn\u2019t be in it. I once allowed myself to become involved in just such a relationship. Although I desired the relationship to be made public, and had made it public in all areas of my life, the other person succumbed to tremendous pressure – applied by her future ex-husband (from whom she had separated at the time), her parents, her children and her Church of Christ congregants – to preserve her family and her religious affiliations (otherwise she was to be ex-communicated for divorcing her lying and cheating husband). She broke down and made a clean breast of our entire affair in front of her congregation, and promptly thereafter, from the parking lot of the church, called and ended things with me.<\/p>\n
I was driving back into town from somewhere, emotionally spent, in heavy traffic, and noticed an SUV in front of me with a license plate that referred to some scripture. I was not amused, and completely discounted the occurrence.\u00a0 The vehicle turned off the road I was on.\u00a0 Then, a few blocks later, it reappeared in front of me. How could this be \u2013 heavy traffic, SUV turns off, me still driving home, SUV reappears, once again, directly in front of me?\u00a0 I made a mental note of the scripture. I went home and read the scripture and it struck me as the final confirmation that I needed to at last feel certain there was a God. A few weeks later, that same vehicle once again appeared in front of me. Again? No way! Worse, I had gotten the scripture all wrong. It was Romans 8:28 being touted on the license plate. If I had read that passage instead, I may have read no further. But Romans 8:24? Well, that was altogether different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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