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Originally Posted by Rekna
You want proof that there is proof for me.
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Yesterday, my wife bought me a book. I opened it to a random page, and everything about the words on the page were utterly unremarkable in respect to whatever else is happening in my life. I bought a book a couple weeks ago... again, utterly unremarkable- absolutely nothing coincidental. Also, when I was at the store a few days ago, I didn't run into someone I went to highschool with years ago. I've also telephoned a few people in the past and quite expectedly, they were not just about to call me when I called them.
Though here is something miraculous... the exact same sort of thing happened to me, too!
I was a reputed atheist in highschool (though it was not, and is not the case), and I'd occassionally get cornered for religious/science themed discussions by this one girl. She was incredibly smart and her parents were super-strict Church of Christ.
In my opinion, she was using me as a foil to poke holes in her faith because she wasn't comfortable doing it herself, but that's neither here nor there. Occassionally, she'd invite me to her church and ask me what I thought about it afterwards. So it was pretty friendly as far as adversarial framed relationships go.
I doubt the first book she gave me was "The Purpose Driven Life", but it sounds pretty similar as far as format is concerned. A few days later she also gave me a Bible and went through this little spiel about how she liked to open it at the bookmark or randomly, blah blah- which we did. Lo and behold, it was the same general topic as in the other book she'd given me. Amazing! Jesus at work? No, it was her, as she admitted when I called her on it.
Maybe they've honed the technique since then, or maybe in your instance it is truly a coincidence, but, if you don't mind, how did you acquire these two books? Who knew you had the first one? And why did you open a "christmas present" 20 days early?