Whatever others may say, I and mine stand with our angels, those sent by God to overlook our lives and protect us.
What a foolish thing to cast off any protection in a world even you admit to be hazardous, with your antivirus, firewalls, anonomizers, AC logons, seatbelts, condoms, pin numbers, door locks, etc, -- despite your mouthings of ´think only good positive thoughts´...

Frightened? As I stand in the hands of God? -- are you devoid of sense? No fear here. Prudent armor is worn in wartime -- weapons unsheathed in time of danger. This is not fear, this is knowing the enemy and being prepared.
As you sit in your sandbox and say ´what a safe place we´ve made for ourselves´, don´t think to interfere in the affairs of those who know better.
Even by your own standards, casting away something of positive value is a waste.
And if your argument is that I stand in rank superstition, then my counter is that you stand in rank arrogance against forces and immensities that thousands of other humans do perceive.



Physical peril is the very least of human troubles...
Whether that baby dies in that car, or later on the way to the prom, or still later on some foreign battlefield, or even later dead drunk in an alley, or ending in some souless hospital...what´s the difference? Is everyone to be protected and NOBODY dies? No hurt, no pain, no suffering, no loss?

Sounds to me like a description of times after we meet death...

And the protection I seek from angels has more to do with spiritual than physical...but even if I were thrown into an oven, I´m not going to complain that they didn´t ´protect´ me...they only do what they´re assigned to do...whatever is supposed to be looked after is looked after...limited human perception is always going to go to the lowest common denominator -- ´save me from pain´.



It´s all in your level of expectations. But nobody expects at this point physical over-rides on reality. The few that do break through, are called miracles; but the whys and wherefores of their appearance and frequency are open to speculation; if they happen, they happen; we´re given brains and wits for a reason, to solve our own wrestlings with the physical world.
But since we´re over our heads in the spiritual world, we´re given more help.
I know, if your focus is solely on the here and now physical, it wouldn´t mean a hill of beans to you -- but the pattern you build in the physical world, translates into meaning in the spiritual one.
You can have your ducks in a row in your life, and at the same time, be staggering all over the spiritual map without direction.

On one hand, we´re practical - not living in a hermit cave, we're in the world -- just not part of it.
I´ve seen my share of miracles; and they never come when I expected, or even in the situations I would have logically assumed them to occur. Go figure.
You can label them as luck or fortune or coincidence or ´the force, Luke´; but semantics aside, they are fortuitous grace from ´somewhere´. Depending on your world view, they´re either connected to a directing force, or they´re blind chance.

What you object to is that if they are from a directed force, the very arbitrary randomness (to your perspective) implies a capricious inconsistent director.
I could give you analogies of ants trying to watch a game of billiards, and their take on things; but it´s more complicated than that; largely because of our attachment to this place and time as containing the be-all and end-all of meaning in the universe.
Well, the story isn´t that this is all illusion...but in comparison to what dwelling in eternity is like -- it might as well be, for all the significance it will carry for us once we´re there.
I know, the idea of ´pie in the sky´ sounds so escapist to you, and in one sense, it is; but it´s mostly a matter of scale and proportion. Which is larger - a one followed by two zeroes (which most won´t reach) -- or a one followed by an infinity of zeroes? What happens here is important in that we learn the skills that we´ll develope to fullness in eternity, and a chance to practice them....but comparatively, it´ll be like trying to look back and remember what a particular touch of wind felt like on your cheek while standing by the side of the road thirty years ago.