Lucky or Unlucky?

Just a few days ago, a popular and talented Denver Broncos football player, was killed in a stretch Limo with darkened windows as it traveled along a Denver street. He was killed instantly by a single shot to his neck by a drive-by shooter, firing randomly and blindly into his limo.

It got me to wonder - was he unlucky to be killed, or would he have been lucky if the shot had missed him? Some would say both. The outcomes are equally true.... maybe, but I'm rapidly moving to the opinion that his time was merely up, and he was neither lucky nor unlucky.

When you consider how easily you can be killed by a host of silly reasons, even when you are doing the right thing, ranging from an improbable fall in your own home, to being hit by a vehicle while crossing the street in a crosswalk, you begin to wonder how does the issue of being unlucky play into all this. I don't think it does - life is precious and priceless, yet it can be lost so easily. I can't think of any other priceless entity, that can be lost as easily, as quickly and as finally as life can be.

This leads me to conclude, that the giver of life, who I believe is God, is also He who allows the life that He gave, to be taken. It makes much more sense to me, to believe that something as precious, priceless and irreplaceable as life, once given, can not be lost like the luck of the draw at some Las Vegas gaming table.

So I believe that my birth was not lucky nor accidental nor an afterthought, and my death will not be either. I know that I have been placed here for a purpose, and I will leave here ONLY when that purpose has ended.

I start off this year of 2007, secure in my knowledge of a Divine plan for my life now, and a Divine plan for my life in the future, when my life here has ended.

I couldn't ask for a better deal than this!