Falling on a Nail
#Accidents #predestination
#Accidents #predestination
Yesterday, I had
a handyman over to the house to fix an area of the outside shed that had rotten
wood on the bottom edge. Before he fixed the area, he had to remove a 12-foot,
80 pound, large and heavy piece of wood that had nails 2 inches high sticking
out, all over it. As I picked up the other old wood strewn over the yard and
threw it in the garbage can 1 foot away, I saw the large piece of wood, the
construction person told me was too large for even him to manage himself,
laying in the yard by one foot from my fence. The piece of wood had the nails
facing down, so I wasn’t certain the nails were even still in it.
I wanted to cut
the grass, which meant I would have to move the wood. Well, I hadn’t moved the wood,
so I had no idea of its density or danger or weight, so I began to pull it to a
safe place. As I did, I slipped on the grass and dropped the wood on the
opposite side with the nails facing up. I hit my head on the wood and almost
knocked myself out. When I opened my eyes, a 2-inch nail was one inch from my
right eye. As I turned over, my arm dislodged a nail from my shoulder, which
had penetrated my shoulder into the rotator cuff. At that point, I began to
black out. Everything became fuzzy around me, as I groaned and rolled onto my
back.
Fortunately, my
mother saw what happen and called a neighbor, who is a healthcare professional,
as she is 81 and would be no good in the situation. My neighbor brought over
things to clear out my wound and told me I would need a stitch or two, and that
the depth of the wound would be dangerous and I would need a tetanus shot. So,
we headed to a doctor or an ER, whichever was open on a Saturday evening at 5. In
times like these one has trouble remembering anything. The brain had been
deprived of oxygen and you feel woozy and in pain. Turns out, no independent
healthcare facilities were open except CVS walk-in clinic and they won’t tend
to a wound. (Don’t worry, I had just had a tetanus shot about 2 months ago,
which I only remember as my dear neighbor helped me walk through the last time
I got hurt and needed one.)
I say all this
not for pity or compassion, but because my intention for that evening became
completely eschewed. I was going to cut the grass and go to a birthday party at
6:30-7:00. Unfortunately, when I got home from my doctor excursion, all I could
do was groan in pain with ice on my wound, I couldn’t move my arm up or down
without severe pain. I’m going to get a colonoscopy on Monday, so I wasn’t
allowed to have any anti-inflammatory. No birthday party, no anything until I
felt better. So, what of my evening plans being changed?
As I replay the
evening, I was dismayed that I didn’t get to see some old friends at a party. But,
I wonder why it was so imperative that I didn’t cut the grass, and more
importantly, why I WASN’T supposed to go to the birthday party… Who was there
that I wasn’t supposed to see? Was a car going to crash into mine on the way to
or from the party? Why was it so imperative my plans were blocked, so much so
that I had to get hurt? And ultimately, was I simply not listening to Spirit by
going to the party, in the first place. Should I have asked my heart if this
was a good place to go? Many questions race through a mind as I tried to make
sense of the evening.
In my book
“Finding Authentic You,” in Discovery 5, I talk about the different views of
spirituality: . What is God or the angels truly responsible in our lives or in
the world? Are the small, individual events in our lives predestined or are do
we have free will, and this was simply an accident? My personal view is that
angels and spirit only intercedes when you are about to get hurt, are moving in
the wrong direction, or need intercession of some sort to keep you on a path
toward your purpose. So, with that belief, I had to assume that the evening was
changed for a reason. This, also, takes away the sting of the wound, whenever I
consider that something worse probably would have happened, had I actually done
what I wanted to do. Below is a portion of Discovery 5 with the different worldviews
of Spirit’s purview:
Ø
Molinism
argues that God can know in advance what we will do, even though free will in
the fullest sense of the phrase does exist, because God somehow knows how
agents would freely act in any given circumstance.
Ø
Omnipotence
seems to include the power to set a limit on what can be known. Moreover, God
chooses to know and predetermine some things, but not others. This allows for
humankind’s free moral choices.
Ø
Omniscience
must include the choices humans will make or else God could not know anything
after the very first human choice was ever made.
Ø
Presentism
means that God knows everything that has ever happened, is happening and will
happen.
Ø "God
is outside time" is a
proposition that was first brought into existence by Thomas Aquinas and C.S.
Lewis. This suggests that God’s perception of time is different, and that this
is relevant to our understanding of our own free will.
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