I am so glad to see that I'm not the only one to recognize that there is no such thing as coincidence or luck. I realized in my teens that no matter how many stupid and dangerous things I did, someone had to be watching over me and saved me from the consequences of my actions and that 'someone' could be none other than God. Not the Judean God, not the Christian God, not the Islamic God, just God. Because by definition there can only be one God. I also noticed that many other people I knew didn't seem to have the same "luck" as I did and I put that down to simple faith, faith that things will work out for the best. After college, a friend told me that he didn't understand how "everything just seemed to come to me", regardless of the often stupid risks I took. I told him I simply had faith that someone watched over me, that God saved me from the consequences of my worst actions and that he (my friend) could adopt that same simple faith that all would be well and it would. I don't know if he did or didn't because our lives took us in different directions.

A fairly recent series of "coincidences" was when I went to my sister's for a Christmas family dinner. My vehicle badly needed to be washed so I borrowed my roommate's luxury truck. On my way home I blacked out and caused an accident that destroyed his truck and put me in the hospital with six broken bones. If I had been driving my car., the other vehicle, a truck, would've crushed my small SUV and there is no way I would've survived. To add to that "coincidence", while I was scanned at the hospital for injuries, a small 'lump' was discovered- I had 2nd degree throat cancer and wouldn't have learned of it until it was too late to do anything about it.

So, I had failed to wash my SUV before Christmas and had to borrow my roommate's large truck and that had saved my life, and discovered I had cancer in time to treat it.

Someone had been watching over me as had happened my entire life and who, other than God, could that have been?

I still live in the belief, faith, that no matter what bad thing befalls me, it is for the best.

No, I can't answer people who ask why children suffer horrible diseases or why anyone does. I am only human and from the limited view point of being human neither I, nor any other human, can even begin to truly understand God, but I do believe, have faith, that we have eternal souls and our lives in this world are mere illusions- perhaps we choose the life we live as humans? I doubt any human knows if that is or isn't true or ever, while in this world, will or even can know.