Phenomenon.
Have you ever thought about phenomenons? I don't mean just the Biblical loaves and fishes variety, the type I am talking about are personal physical impossibilities!
My wife, daughter and friend were in our car returning home. They were being closely followed by another car and my wife had signalled to turn left into our driveway. The car following instead
of overtaking on the outside deliberately positioned itself to pass on the inside. What occurred next took everyone's breath away. The passenger, our friend in an amazed voice said “I don't believe what has just occurred. That car has just passed through us.” Indeed all three had witnessed an impossibility and to this day can not understand how it could have been possible. As the cars had looked like they were going to hit one another, with the car taking over from the inside too close and too speedily progressing towards my wife's car to be averted, the two passengers and my wife all closed their eyes in fear. Seconds seem to turn to painfully drawn out minutes...as the eyes opened, the realisation hit as thankfully nothing else had done and the other car was parked up against the road but on the other side of my wife's car. To everyone it looked as if the car had somehow passed through them. No one was hurt. Everyone was shocked. The driver of the car who had pulled up was sat starring at the car, eyes wide in what looked amazed shock that no collision had taken place.
One extremely foggy night I was driving home with my wife and daughter on a dual carriage way. The fog was so thick that the other carriage way was completely invisible and there was dense fog in front and behind of us. My daughter was slightly fearful of what was occurring and so in an attempt to calm her my wife said maybe my daughter should close her eyes and say a little prayer for the mist to lift a little. My daughter agreed and within a few minutes of closing her eyes I have to say that I was taken aback by what took place, it was as if the mist started to clear, to dissipate and not as one may think but slowly the distance in front of us lifted within the main beam of our headlights as if someone was walking in front of us clearing the way forward. I knew something amazing was occurring as I could see that only the stretch of road lit by the headlights was continuing to clear, everywhere else was not visible due to the thick fog, the miraculous cleared path stayed with us on our journey for the next two hours driving and all the way to our destination.
On another occasion my wife and daughter were in the car travelling to University and at a large roundabout a car was waiting on an adjacent garage forecourt, it looked odd to my wife that he should be just sitting and waiting at the roundabout like that but with cars behind her she had no choice but to continue to drive. The next few minutes confirmed her worst fears as the driver waited for them to turn around and then he shot forward aiming for the passenger side of the car where my daughter would have been seated. After we all thought that the driver had been waiting for the opportunity to deliberately cause an accident perhaps for an insurance claim. Before they had left my daughter had explained to my wife that there was a theory about Guardian Angels, there was she said, a Guardian Angel for each walk of life and if one asked for that particular Angel to help they they would be aided as it was needed. My wife had joked with my daughter and said well as it was so difficult to get a parking spot at the University where they were going maybe they could ask for help to have a safe journey there and to find a perfect parking spot! The drive had been uneventful until the roundabout incident and as my wife's car entered the roundabout the waiting car pulled out sharply, he was about to hit them when once again things seemed to slow down and the car missed them entirely. In fact there was no damage as the waiting car passed through my wife's car in what looked to be a second miracle on the road. The astonished driver did not wait around and drove off at speed leaving the roundabout in surprise. After getting over the shock my wife and daughter continued on to the university where they were happy to see that in an otherwise busy car park there was one perfectly empty space situated next to the building where they were going.
Sometimes things happen that make you stop and think, incidents which force you to ask why and how certain things happen. Many years ago I was in dispute over an injustice to my daughter and in order to put thing right I needed some indisputable proof to establish my point. I visited the main library and surveyed the shelf after shelve of relevant books. I thought to my self how will I ever find the right book? I thought of the injustice to my daughter and I really needed some help. I opened my eyes and thought let's get started. I stretched out my arm to pick the first book and started reading. This first book had the very proof that I was looking for to confront and put right the injustice. Not only did it contain and stipulate a case which was alike to the one we had been through but it gave us what we needed in order to go and legally enforce the right outcome for our daughter.
There are outstanding occasions in life, events which seem to have no logical explanation for why something has come to be. There have been news reports about a boy who could not talk, did not have what was thought to be the ability to learn anything, he was adopted by a family and one night as they went to bed they heard a beautiful piece of music, nothing had been left on to cause the music and so the parents went downstairs to find that the little boy was the one sitting at the piano playing and singing so beautifully that tears were streaming down his own face.
It has been my experience that phenomenons can and do occur in every day situations, perhaps when one least knows they are going to occur, or sometimes when one is in desperate need. Personally phenomenons in my own life have intrigued me.
My wife, daughter and friend were in our car returning home. They were being closely followed by another car and my wife had signalled to turn left into our driveway. The car following instead
of overtaking on the outside deliberately positioned itself to pass on the inside. What occurred next took everyone's breath away. The passenger, our friend in an amazed voice said “I don't believe what has just occurred. That car has just passed through us.” Indeed all three had witnessed an impossibility and to this day can not understand how it could have been possible. As the cars had looked like they were going to hit one another, with the car taking over from the inside too close and too speedily progressing towards my wife's car to be averted, the two passengers and my wife all closed their eyes in fear. Seconds seem to turn to painfully drawn out minutes...as the eyes opened, the realisation hit as thankfully nothing else had done and the other car was parked up against the road but on the other side of my wife's car. To everyone it looked as if the car had somehow passed through them. No one was hurt. Everyone was shocked. The driver of the car who had pulled up was sat starring at the car, eyes wide in what looked amazed shock that no collision had taken place.
One extremely foggy night I was driving home with my wife and daughter on a dual carriage way. The fog was so thick that the other carriage way was completely invisible and there was dense fog in front and behind of us. My daughter was slightly fearful of what was occurring and so in an attempt to calm her my wife said maybe my daughter should close her eyes and say a little prayer for the mist to lift a little. My daughter agreed and within a few minutes of closing her eyes I have to say that I was taken aback by what took place, it was as if the mist started to clear, to dissipate and not as one may think but slowly the distance in front of us lifted within the main beam of our headlights as if someone was walking in front of us clearing the way forward. I knew something amazing was occurring as I could see that only the stretch of road lit by the headlights was continuing to clear, everywhere else was not visible due to the thick fog, the miraculous cleared path stayed with us on our journey for the next two hours driving and all the way to our destination.
On another occasion my wife and daughter were in the car travelling to University and at a large roundabout a car was waiting on an adjacent garage forecourt, it looked odd to my wife that he should be just sitting and waiting at the roundabout like that but with cars behind her she had no choice but to continue to drive. The next few minutes confirmed her worst fears as the driver waited for them to turn around and then he shot forward aiming for the passenger side of the car where my daughter would have been seated. After we all thought that the driver had been waiting for the opportunity to deliberately cause an accident perhaps for an insurance claim. Before they had left my daughter had explained to my wife that there was a theory about Guardian Angels, there was she said, a Guardian Angel for each walk of life and if one asked for that particular Angel to help they they would be aided as it was needed. My wife had joked with my daughter and said well as it was so difficult to get a parking spot at the University where they were going maybe they could ask for help to have a safe journey there and to find a perfect parking spot! The drive had been uneventful until the roundabout incident and as my wife's car entered the roundabout the waiting car pulled out sharply, he was about to hit them when once again things seemed to slow down and the car missed them entirely. In fact there was no damage as the waiting car passed through my wife's car in what looked to be a second miracle on the road. The astonished driver did not wait around and drove off at speed leaving the roundabout in surprise. After getting over the shock my wife and daughter continued on to the university where they were happy to see that in an otherwise busy car park there was one perfectly empty space situated next to the building where they were going.
Sometimes things happen that make you stop and think, incidents which force you to ask why and how certain things happen. Many years ago I was in dispute over an injustice to my daughter and in order to put thing right I needed some indisputable proof to establish my point. I visited the main library and surveyed the shelf after shelve of relevant books. I thought to my self how will I ever find the right book? I thought of the injustice to my daughter and I really needed some help. I opened my eyes and thought let's get started. I stretched out my arm to pick the first book and started reading. This first book had the very proof that I was looking for to confront and put right the injustice. Not only did it contain and stipulate a case which was alike to the one we had been through but it gave us what we needed in order to go and legally enforce the right outcome for our daughter.
There are outstanding occasions in life, events which seem to have no logical explanation for why something has come to be. There have been news reports about a boy who could not talk, did not have what was thought to be the ability to learn anything, he was adopted by a family and one night as they went to bed they heard a beautiful piece of music, nothing had been left on to cause the music and so the parents went downstairs to find that the little boy was the one sitting at the piano playing and singing so beautifully that tears were streaming down his own face.
It has been my experience that phenomenons can and do occur in every day situations, perhaps when one least knows they are going to occur, or sometimes when one is in desperate need. Personally phenomenons in my own life have intrigued me.
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