God is a pretty cool dude.

[Dog Food]

So yesterday I went out to dinner with three friends. Afterwards we went on a walk to the cove because it was the first nice day out after a week of rain. On our way I realized I really had to pee. Once in a while I would catch myself daydreaming that one of the houses we went by would magically open up to me and there would be a bathroom waiting for me. And then eventually we reached a church. There was a sign that said if you donated a dollar to the church it would save one child, so we decided to donate a dollar each.

I led the way in search of the offices the sign said to drop the money off at, which eventually led us to this side building. The choices were upstairs or downstairs. One of my friends said downstairs at first, but then changed his mind when he realized all that was downstairs was the restrooms (courtesy of the sign that specified so). I raised my eyebrows and was all like, "Did you say... bathroom!?" And I ran down those stairs like Roadrunner. Sure enough, there was a bathroom. It was really nice, too.

Anyway, long story short (oh and to wrap up the "side story", the offices were closed so we just fed the money to the donation box in the church), I spent the next five to ten minutes in deep gratitude to God. Seriously, that incident renewed my faith or something. I seriously and deeply believed that God had gone through that just so that I could go to the bathroom, because He's a pretty nice and awesome dude. Anyway, I'm still thankful to Him. Whether it was His intentions or not, I'm taking it that way. And it was pretty cool of Him to help me out. Thanks again, God, I really owe you one. It was truly a spring miracle.

As miracles go, this one was very low on the chart. But still, have you experienced any miracles? Anything happen that you think some sort of higher being might have taken part in? Do you think I'm an idiot? Do you think this should be in Power Down? Doth thou know not thy own will? Does that previous question make sense? ...I could go on, but I won't.

[Captain Justice]

While I agree to the title of this thread whole-heartedly, I feel like its only going to get a negative or "lol" response to it because a lot of people here seem very strong on their disbelief of the Lord......

But anyways, while I don't exactly see how what happened to you was a miracle (since most buildings have restrooms in them lol), I still think its cool how it made you think of God. He works in strange ways after all.

[Custom]

If there is a higher being, I do not believe they have any say in what happens to each individual person on Earth.  I do not believe that prayers are answered or listened to.  I don't really have any belief in Jesus or any of the church approved miracles.  I don't believe what you experienced was a miracle, but more of the wonderful well thought out building code for your city that requires every home and business built to have at least one bathroom.

[Tahrann]

So... you went down stairs to use the bathrooms... in other words they have bathrooms in hell? (Bad joke I know.)

Yeah, the big G is a really cool guy, if I really need help and I pray to him for help, he gives help any way he can (on his time, not mine though).

[Doodle]

It almost felt like I was being trolled while reading this. :U

I hope you realize most buildings, including churches, have bathrooms.
Finding a bathroom inside a church is definitely not "God" making sure you have somewhere to pee, and it's definitely not some sort of miracle that you managed to find a bathroom inside a church. Churches have bathrooms.

[Rius]

I believe she was referring to the chain of events that led her to finding a bathroom in the church, not the fact that the bathroom was there.

Anyway, let's see... miracle stories. Oh, I have two:

Last summer, I was at college for orientation. The morning I was supposed to come back home, the alarm didn't go off and I literally had 30 minutes to leave the hotel, catch a cab, and get through security at the airport. So it takes 15 minutes to check out and wait for the cab to get there. I get in the cab and I believe I was thinking "God, Buddha, or whatever Supreme Being is out there, if you please don't let me miss the plane and send me a sign, I'll convert." Yeah, I was desperate. So, I have a 10 minute ride to get to the airport. If you can do math, that leaves me 5 minutes to get through airport security and on the plane. No problem, right? Wrong. For some reason, the security line was hideously long that morning, and it took me 15 minutes to get through the line. So the plane left 10 minutes ago. Except not! The plane was having delays, so I was still able to make my flight. So I take the first flight, and while I'm waiting at the transfer airport, a little old Asian woman walks up to me and hands me a piece of paper that says "God Loves You". Scary as hell.

Second story, I'm at college and at some point during the day I lost my cellphone. So I'm looking and looking for it, but it's nowhere to be found. I ask people to call, but I don't hear it. So now, I'm searching the campus looking for it, to no avail. Then, I remembered that a mile out on the edge of campus I fell earlier, so I head over there to look. So I'm searching this large, grassy knoll for my phone, again to no avail. Now's the time I start to panic. My phone was my only means of communication with my family at the time, and they're over 1500 miles away. So when the pressure really mounts, I start to pray. Not a regular boring prayer, one of Collete's prayer's from Tales of Symphonia. Cause I'm awesome like that. Anyway, immediately after I finish the prayer I run into a tree. At the base of said tree is none other than my beloved cell phone. So apparently, Martel loves me too.

[buttlord420]

"God is a pretty cool dude."
Eh kills bad guys and doesent afraid of anything
Oh wait, he does the exact opposite.  :|

[Cornwad]

Yup, there are a lot of negative people out there. I love it when I find bathrooms when I really need to.

[Allegretto]

I seriously contemplate God's existense, for all arguments stating the existence of a god are laughable at best.

Such as the first cause theory. Which for a while was the foundation of my belief, has just been proven incorrect in my opinion thank's to a great philosopher of our time.

Read "Why i'm not a Christian" by Bertrand Russel. It's eye opening. If of course you have the basic intelligence to understand what he is saying.

http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html

[Custom]

I believe she was referring to the chain of events that led her to finding a bathroom in the church, not the fact that the bathroom was there.

If that is the case, then she would have experienced the same miracle by simply walking to a 7/11 or any business.

[Mister_Belmont]

The level of intelligence in that post of yours is amazing. You're an idiot, and, given the above posts, you should already know why.

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If that is the case, then she would have experienced the same miracle by simply walking to a 7/11 or any business.

most likely also the fact that it was at a church too. also after rereading it, it doesn't sound like she was expecting a bathroom when they went in. Or not to be lead practically straight to one anyway.

[PsychoYoshi]

Is there some reason people always get their intercourse ing panties in a bunch when someone mentions religion? Live and let live guys, seriously.

[Sgt.Chilly]

Well I generally hate most people's version of God because he always seems like a snobbish self centered prick with a vindictive streak that shouldn't be held by anyone with omnipotence but some people have nice Gods.

My ambiguous concept of God is a pretty nice ethereal genderless incomprehensible being.

[Custom]

Is there some reason people always get their intercourse ing panties in a bunch when someone mentions religion? Live and let live guys, seriously.

This is a tad different. She's praising a god for finding something as common as a bathroom.