I don't agree with you on too much AP, but with this we see eye to eye. The best I can answer is, along with God, I also believe in Satan. There is most definitely evil in the world. As humans, we don't always see the sense in life and agreed, prayers aren't always answered, and certainly aren't answered in the way we think they should be. To me, it all boils down to faith. Without it, I would be lost.
This is my point. I DO believe in God. I just don't believe in a God that intervenes for Aunt Polly to find her papers, but lets a little girl be raped and buried alive.
LOL, that was funny.
Stupid yes, but it was as funny then as it is now.
Stupid, but funny. 
I think it is rude to suggest that God is working on your behalf, but not for others. God is helping you find papers, but not bothering with the mom who prayed while her daughter lay in the ground dying.
I really do not understand why people think that God is helping them, but not others. And I really would like one of these people, just once, to explain WHY they think God helped them out, but doesn't help other people.
I think that if God were going to step in, it wouldn't be to find papers. It would be to stop a child from being raped and buried alive. Or to end the suffering of very sick people, people in pain, being tortured, starving to death, etc.
It is a slap in the face to people who had to suffer through so much worse to say, "God helps me. He performs miracles for me." Especially when people say it is because of their great relationship with God. Like God loves them more.
But, nobody ever answers the question of why they think God steps in for them, and leaves children to be buried alive. Nor do they ever answer the question of why they would want to love a God who finds paperwork, but lets children be raped and murdered.
Aunt Polly, I'm sorry if you were offended. I wasn't trying to say you aren't special. Of course you are. I have asked a million times on the DIS why people believe that God singles them out to receive miracles and lets others suffer much more horrid fates. You've been on some of those threads.
And I promise that when someone gives me an answer that makes sense (not the old "I have a great relationship with Him"), I'll stop asking.
Really covered all the bases there, huh? Can't lose anyway you look at it. Isn't that conveeeenient?
Well, you were quicker than I thought! I think you'll have to think what you want about Chrisitians and God and the life of faith. It really is something you have to experience to "get". No number of posts will make you see what it is to have that relationship with Him. No words, nothing unless you actually encounter Him for yourself. This would just go back and forth, on and on. Think me a fool. I am fine with it. 
I'm very glad you found your missing important papers.
When things go missing in my house, we simply say "Grandma, Put them back!" within a few minutes of saying that, we'll go back to where we think they should be, and look again. Most of the time, they're right there, under something... Did my mischevious grandma put them back? (she's been dead since 1984, and she's been cantankerous ever since) Or did my guardian angel intervene? I'm not sure, but whatever helps... helps.
What a cute story.
Then again, I'm a Catholic girl raised to pray to saints to intervene, so I guess it goes with the territory.
I'm just glad we all get a chance to choose for ourselves!Yup. And not just here, in real life, too. My very bestest friend for 28 years told me about 17 years ago (when DH and I were struggling hard and she and her Navy DH weren't so much) that her life was better than mine because she had a better relationship with God. Now she says she's sorry and How did I put up with her, lol.
I hope so. I believe that, anyway. God loves us all. Which is why I think if he were going to intervene, he'd do it for little girls who were buried alive, too. Since he doesn't, I have to figure he isn't intervening. That's my understanding anyway.
If we're all special, why does he find Aunt Polly's papers, but not help the girl who was buried alive?! That's the part I cannot reconcile. That's the part where I go, "No way. No way he'd favor Aunt Polly like that."
I don't think people are stupid for believing what they believe. Maybe someday I'll change my mind (lol, it has happened before), but I doubt it.
). I found out that I was, indeed, expecting in April of 2002. We were both overjoyed.
Then on August 14th, at a routine 20 week checkup, we discovered that our little prayed for baby had died. I had labor induced and she was delivered on August 16, 2002.
This goes down as one of my favorite DIS posts ever.
I talk to my dead mom and dad constantly, and usually have the same results as you do when you talk to your grandma. Haven't a clue as to how it works, but I most certainly believe in guardian angels. Sometimes I think they are able to intervene - they can be the go-between between me and God.
Oh, and for the person who is going to come along and tlel me I'm stupid, have at it. I think its funny when strangers on internet boards call each other stupid...no skin off my back whatseover. I believe what I believe and what you believe has no impact whatsoever on me.
Right. I agree. There isn't anything except God who could make you believe anything I or anyone else here says about our experiences with Him. Sure life happens either way, not asying it doesn't. It is just a whole lot different when life happens when you have a relationship with God. I've done it both ways. And done it with a closer walk with Him and one that wasn't so close and that is different too.
Different strokes for different folks.
