I wasn't fully Christian and I'm still not, MGW. I didn't expect Him to speak to me. In fact, I didn't want it. I just thought (and I was real young back then, so please do not ask) "Hey! Maybe if I pray and ask God into my heart I'll have real good luck and find money on the ground!" Or something like that.
Seeing as you contributed what happened to being God shows you already had a predisposition to think that.
And, MGW, how do you explain a flock of birds leading me to the mall? I never even set foot on the path that they lead me through! In fact, I didn't know where they were leading me until it was right in front of me.
So you saw a bunch of bird flying in a single direction, something we hardly ever see bird do. And you just happened to get the idea to follow them and you ended up at the mall. So what? Honestly leading a boy to the mall seems like a waste of Gods time considering the likely hood of other miracles he could have done.
Yeah I can just see Gods agenda that day.
God: Who's requesting miracles today?
Angel:
Well there's a guy in intensive care who's family has been praying for a miracle that he pulls through,
There's a little girl who's going to die of cancer if you don't grant her the miracle she's been praying for for the past year,
There's a drunk who's about to try and drive home and kill a family coming home from church if you don't stop him.
And there's a boy who wants to go to the mall but doesn't know the way.
God: I'll go talk to the boy and send some bird for him to follow.
Angel: God sir that seems like a waste of your power, what about all those other people?
God: Don't question me! I work in mysterious ways.
Knee MailBe "shure" to tell me when you can STOP USING THAT FREAKIN' COINCIDENCE WORD!!
Let's take another situation for example.
I have an uncle who once thought he could change the color of traffic lights with his mind. Every time he came to a red light instead of stopping he would just think green and the light would turn green just before he went under it. Except once and he nearly got in an accident and was ticketed.
Now which is more likely.
He really has telepathic powers that could change the color of traffic lights and it just failed that last time?
Or was it just a coincidence that the times it seemed to work the light was about to change just as he was nearing it except for that last light?
just run around tossing the word "coincidence" around blindly.
It's not blindly it's called reason. I suggest you use it some time.