DWQA QuestionsCategory: PrayerRegardless of their level of divine alignment, how often in an average seventy five year lifespan will the divine intervene to keep someone alive and pursuing their life plan?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
We can tell you that it is, on average, about a dozen times that there has been a divine intervention to forestall or minimize an accident or injury that otherwise would be life‑threatening or immediately fatal. When you think about all the hazards facing a human being in the course of their lifetime, this is not an extraordinary number. After all, simply falling from a fairly modest height can cause severe injury or death, depending on how one lands, what the surface is like, and so on. Children have many hazards, especially because of their lack of experience, and if they are not supervised carefully will take extraordinary risks without realizing they are doing so. Many more would be killed wandering into streets and hit by automobiles in many parts of the world. Many others would die from falls off of ledges, out of windows, from tree branches they have climbed to reach, and so on, but many times there is an angelic save simply to allow them to keep going so their life will not be truncated through a kind of silly and incidental miscue of no great significance otherwise, not being a moral choice or a corruption within of karmic consequence but simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a moment of inattention perhaps bringing about a calamity. So divine grace can be bestowed, especially if the person is in divine alignment through choice in a partnership where there is interaction through prayer to make requests of us, and have that on file so it can be referenced and used in the event of a rainy day when there is a fall from a ladder or a moment of distraction on the road, and suddenly an accident is bound to happen that could be serious or fatal. By the same token, there is an expectation people will use due regard for their own welfare and a respectful caution in their behavior and seeking safeguards so their conduct is planful and purposeful, and an attempt is made to avoid such problems as opposed to being wild and reckless. We cannot save someone from themselves if they choose to put their life at risk. There are some who do so, seeming to throw caution to the wind almost as though they are flaunting their carelessness and daring the universe to strike them down. That is precisely the wrong thing to do because we cannot overcome such an impulse unilaterally. This is why, indeed, people die all too often before their time and why people can end their own lives. We could prevent all of it but that would go against the free will paradigm, to allow humans their own choices, but along with that gift of freedom comes the responsibility to bear the burden of the consequences that ensue, and many times the lessons are quite painful.