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Not one prayer was said.

I’ve recently been struggling with some things in my life, one of them being my job. The company I have loved and worked for the past 9 years has undergone management changes and with that my job was put in jeopardy. It has been a cloud hanging over me for awhile now. This past week I was offered a new job with an increase in pay. I’m very excited about this new opportunity and believe it will be the start of lots of goods things in my life. And it all happened without one prayer being said. How does that happen? ?

Alliegirl 7 Mar 25
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" People say that I am lucky. Funny thing is, the more I practice, the luckier I get " Arnold Palmer

I used to coach American Football in the UK and that is a fantastic coaching quote

@ipdg77 My favorite football coaching quote was from the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly " Do the simple things well "

Love that quote, and how true!

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I prayed for you....

Lol

Thank Buddha for Buddha!!!!! 😉

So you’re the one who did it? I’m eternally grateful for your prayer. ?

@Alliegirl

🙂

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IT'S A MIRACLE! You didn't have to say one prayer? God must have known the struggle in your heart! Are you Catholic? Maybe we could start the canonization process. Okay, enough. Great news! Best wishes.

Thank you. ?

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Like it says in quantum physics, nothing happens that isn't imagined first. You wanted it, and the universe provided it, since you weren't offering resistance to the idea.
Physics indicates that we are participating in creating our own universes/reality.

“I regard consciousness as fundamental and matter as derivative from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

Many biblical believers think that Gematria is the language mathematically of the bible and the book of Revelation. They put special meaning into 666. What I want to know is that if this is true why have I NOT won the lottery yet?

@Stevil Here ya go! Here's what she looks like today, at age 77 years old

@icolan Odds are terrible but if you do not play you will never win. This week I played $4 worth. Some weeks just $1 worth. I have actually known businessmen who would play up to $500 worth weekly. We all won about the same regardless.

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it must have been a miracle

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Good luck on your new job.

Thank you. ?

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What you have experienced is real life, it comes with good and bad. Prayers and praying isn't.

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God's watching over you ?

If he/she or it does exist that's all they do....watch, that's if they're even looking.

@ipdg77 god = the original voyeur

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I don't know. Maybe good things and bad things happen all the time and there are no unseen forces to cause any of it. Maybe when one door closes...God doesn't even have to be doing the closing or opening. I never understood praying for favors from God, even if God were real. Why would people have to beg and plead to keep from having a shitty life? And you can pray all you like but some bad stuff just goes right ahead and happens. Sorry, but this really bugs me. Like all the prayers for a kid with cancer. What kind of god worthy of the name can help you out with that, after the fact, but doesn't just stop it in the first place? Arrgh! You touched a sore spot. Prayers or no prayers, nobody ever solved a problem sitting around waiting for divine intervention.

I completely agree with you. ?

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Awesome go girl

Thank you ?

Your welcome

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Voodoo!

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I just knew that once I came out atheist I would not have "devine favor" any longer. Is that superstition or what? Everything seems to go my way just like it was a script. I see this happen almost every week, including paperwork I am doing for my demented step father.
How does this happen? Persistence, attitude, focus. You can have this working for you and not even know it. I knew it when I had 2 other people tell it back to me and that they could see it. Others just think I'm a stubborn old man.

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Who knows? Maybe there are some other unseen forces lurking out in the universe.?

You could be right. ?

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Just Karma.

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Congratulations on the new job, but I doubt prayer or good thoughts had anything to do with it. More likely hard work and perserverance.

You’re right, and thank you. ?

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Funny how that works.

I like that. ?

yep.....pretty much the truth. However one of my prayers were answered in 1994. Blew me away big time. It wasn't actually a prayer though, I just screamed at the Universe.......and it did it.

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It happens because life flows forward based on one's actions, the luck of the draw and the decisions one makes. Prayer has not a damned thing to do with it.

Absolutely agree! ?

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Chance.

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It is your state of mind, We do indeed draw similar energy and with that the doors your mind was looking for were being opened by the minds looking for the right energy mix/

EMC2 Level 8 Mar 25, 2018
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How does that happen? Patience, confidence, competence.

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No prayer nessasary, you earned a reputation and I beleve you receved a new job based on your Reputation and hard work. Pretty simple but true!

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Because people thinking real hard about you does absolutely nothing.

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Congrats on the new job!
I sent the obligatory.

? Thank you!

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Three things never come back: Time, money wrongly spent....and OPPORTUNITIES.

I like that. ?

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A prayer to whom and for what? Your future is in your hands, James

Leon Level 5 Mar 25, 2018

You’re absolutely right. ?

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