I was in Menai Bridge many years ago, playing Crown Green Bowls when a thunderstorm struck.
I say 'struck' for the following reason.
I was standing next to another man, sheltering from the heavy rain. We were both under a canopy outside the Bowling Hut.
As the playing area was one that was well drained, there was no suggestion that play was over and it was a very interesting evening.
We were standing about two feet apart when a bolt of lightning hit the paving stone between us, sending a chunk of the concrete through a window of the hut behind us.
We were both badly shaken but unhurt.
Was this Divine Intervention?
2007-03-31 03:25:51 · 20 answers · asked by MANCHESTER UK 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was and am a Christian but Allah is also recognised.
2007-03-31 03:31:46 · update #1
To Amalthea,
I recognised the meaning at the time and have been granted so much in my life since.
2007-03-31 04:02:00 · update #2
I believe so. What matters is what you believe. Some of the care God gives us, we can explain away as something else. An Irish Priest once warned me about the good luck explanation ...the word luck is derived from the word Lucifer, but I did not understand much of what he was telling me. Luck is what Lucifer gives you then surely we should question exactly how "good" it is likely to be ?
Sometimes the so called good luck is obviously from our Father, God, Jehovah and there is no other explanation for those of us who I believe may well have something for us still to fulfill.
If you believe in Science then one of you should have been struck. There is a lot that the less arrogant of us Homo Sapiens can see we do not know, however I would say that God had decided that it was neither of your time yet ! You may never know what it is that either of you have yet to fulfill, but God has a purpose for us all. Enjoy your life. God has given it to you.
2007-03-31 09:36:23 · answer #1 · answered by Aunty Wendy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
~~~man,,,,, You don't explain what was happening during The Game which was so important that it required a bolt, directed by The Divine, to Intervene. On What? ,,,,OR what was the End Result of this most Auspicious Moment? You didn't even emerge from this experience with some Epiphany of any sort,,, or did you just need to be "badly shaken" and a window to be broken? Perhaps you should study the burn marks on your toast or the reflections on your bathroom window for signs of The Divine.
2007-03-31 14:24:11 · answer #2 · answered by Sensei TeAloha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Either one or both of you is here for a reason. If either one of you had been killed, it would have a certain impact on the survivor so that can't be the point since you both survived. Or maybe that is the point - there can be an incredibly life threatening event in EITHER or JUST ONE of your lives and the one that SURVIVES must go on to preach about the relevance of CHANCE or maybe, awww, come on, it doesn't mean anything more than chance. There are plenty of occasions like this where the outcome has been that one or both parties were killed. Luck is not God.
2007-03-31 10:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think that God moved the thunderbolt so that it didn't hit either one of you. god knew you were going to be standing there before the storm even started. so it's not as if the bolt was going to strike when he was not paying attention and then last second he was like " oh crap better move that sucker!" i'm not going to say he planned it to land there, he might have, but it might just be where it landed and that is it. but that doesn't mean he wasn't aware of it, because he's definitely aware of everything. but maybe he does want you to use that experience, scary yet awesome as it was to talk to other people. it can be used as a cool illustration for many things, and you are the one who acutally experienced it, making it more real for people.
2007-03-31 10:33:37 · answer #4 · answered by angel b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For you it clearly was divine intervantion, For scientists, no.
For theologians, they would argue for hours.
Maybe the ghosts of the dead Druids thought you were Romans, and asked Zeus to strike you, but missed.
Maybe Wales is a rainy place, huh?
One explanation is as good as the next, I say . . .
2007-03-31 10:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by Marc Miami 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as luck!
God knows all past, present, and future moments. He knew when He said "let there be light" that the moment you are describing would happen to you. You won't catch God by surprise. Why it happened to you....only He knows.
2007-03-31 10:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by witness 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it got you thinking about God, and how fragile your life is, and how you want to spend your eternity- then maybe it was a message. You would be the best one to know that, by how it made you feel. So you tell us.
2007-03-31 10:40:10 · answer #7 · answered by Amalthea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no other name under Heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved.
2007-03-31 10:37:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's a divine intervention and a divine savior?
im guessing its a religious thing...oh how easily people fall for things these days
2007-03-31 10:30:06 · answer #9 · answered by Clarity. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not know about the intervention part but it was a miracle.
2007-03-31 10:30:02 · answer #10 · answered by 1saintofGod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋