divine intervention

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In the autumn of last year I went with my husband to a beach in Heysham, Lancashire and during the walk and to the entry to the cliffs area we walked down a busy road for about two to three hundred yards. As we approached within 25 yards of the turn off I could see in the distance something shiny in the grass verge by the road and as I reached the place I picked up the object that was to my surprise a silver brooch. As my husband and I examined the brooch we both commented how similar it was to one that I would wear some days on a jacket that I was not wearing on that particular occasion. Bemused by this when we got home we searched out the jacket to compare the likeness of the brooch found with the one on my jacket and to our suprise the brooch was missing. We then went on to think out when we had last visited the beach road while wearing the jacket and it had to be two or three days before. We found this amazing because we didn't know that I had lost the brooch and then to find it in a prominent place on a busy road in grass with many tourists about three days later, was frankly thought provoking. As Christians we thought this was divine intervention but perhaps you might consider this to be a coincidence?
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:30:38 +0000Coincidence ID:4273