It is so strange. Particularly because they were witnessing to them, they were out in the field service, and should they then not be "protected" somehow. We are so eager, often, to look for signs, that some strange occurences have a meaning of some sort, that it is God or the angles somehow interferring and directing things down the good road. This belief looks very strange when one reads about the Lillelid case. Half a Spanish congregation, including many children, fried to death in a bus some years ago, and horrified people standing close by could do nothing to help the screaming children trying to get out, because of the heat. They had to stand there and watch the children fry. Where was God? Where was God on the rest stop when Lillelid approached the maniacs?
Some years ago, there was an article in the Watchtower about a single mother who could not afford travelling to the convention with her children. So she grew strawberries and sold them. And the strawberries were so big and beautiful that people came from nearand far to awe and buy. God's hand to help her. A fisherman cancelled the trip during the convention. The non-Witness crew were angry. The day after the convention they went out fishing and caught so much you have to go back to Peter's days to find its equal. God's hand.
But where was the hand of God on the rest stop? Where was it in Spain? His people fried and his people were slaughtered.
I think they have tuned down such interference stories lately - and that the remaining ones should be dropped altogether.
Shit happens. I can only hope the Universe DOES care. The thought of living in an indifferent Universe scares the shit out of me.
