I was going to a Church conference called ihop, I'm sure many of you have heard of it. Anyways I've been smoking for over 2 years now, and I was planning to do a few over there. (Yeah I know shame on me.) Yet the day the plane took off I got the flu and couldn't go, and I found out a couple of my friends that went got caught smoking on the first day there, and there parents have been notified about it. Do you think there was a reason for my sickness.
P.S. - If you want to judge me on my smoking habits, go ahead. It won't accomplish anything, but if it makes you feel better go ahead and shoot.
2007-12-28 06:59:48 · 11 answers · asked by Daniel k 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The thing is I probably would have been caught with my friends, and I feel like it's a sign telling me to stop.
2007-12-28 07:06:02 · update #1
NO...you got sick b/c of a virus. there was no divine intervention there. Divine intervention would have been if you got sick and the plane crashed in the ocean killing everyone.
The Lord doesn't not "step in" due to smoking cigs. How you DOOO flatter yourself my dear.
2007-12-28 07:05:02 · answer #1 · answered by Hey U, Yeah U..Get over here 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When folks like Gandalf and I were young, nobody really understood the harm smoking caused. Some were even told to give their asthmatic kids a few puffs on a cigarette to help him breathe better.
These days, we know better.
Almost everyone I know who does smoke wishes they could stop.
I did manage it...but, Hun, it was NOT easy...
What did it for me was having a grand daughter with a severe heart defect...no smoking around her. I don't even want the smell of smoke on my clothes when I hug her...
WHY would anybody want to start a habit that everyone who has it wishes they could quit? I never could quite get the sense of that one...
No, it's not a moral judgment...although smoking when you KNOW that your "exhaust" endangers the people around you could be construed as immoral...it is, rather, a question of...are you really that stupid?
I don't know why you got sick and couldn't go. But if you think God is talking to you about quitting, you are probably right.
And Hun, if God is talking to you, this old lady's advice would be to LISTEN!!
2007-12-28 07:20:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK I'm not judging you bro my dad smokes and he is a christian. I think every thing happens for a reason. And we can interpret it differently from how other people do. And this could have very well been God's plan for you not to go whether it be not to get caught by those people or he just might have thought not going would have done you more good. But I personally belief God does work in our lives in this way.
2007-12-28 07:06:32 · answer #3 · answered by quickjoe11 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I smoked for over 40 years. The day will come when you will regret ever picking up that first one. From one who knows.
2007-12-28 07:04:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason for your sickness was exposure to the germs that caused your sickness.
If you want to search for meaning, try finding the one behind the little girl who was ejected from a pickup truck during an accident last week. She died at age 7. Go ahead: find a reason.
2007-12-28 07:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
depends if your underage or not, but smoking for a perlonged period of time does increase the chances for most illnesses/
2007-12-28 07:04:07 · answer #6 · answered by midnitepoets 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you weren't meant to go. Go to a local church group, instead of having to fly.
2007-12-28 07:03:52 · answer #7 · answered by Scooterette1! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It could be. It is really hard to sort it out. My best guess is that it was not.
2007-12-28 07:04:32 · answer #8 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are learning well
it's not about right and wrong, it's about getting caught, and THEN still about admittance of guilt
2007-12-28 07:02:46 · answer #9 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The temple of the body should not be willfully desecrated.
2007-12-28 07:02:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋