“When I am confronted with a problem, I will calmly search out the most intelligent means of solving it.” (ODAT, 29 March)
The most intelligent way of solving a problem is always to go to God.
God is outside the machine (‘deux ex machina’) and so not only has perfect knowledge but has absolute power and thus the ability to intervene as necessary.
Over the years, I’ve increasingly had the eery feeling that the structures and outcomes of my life are not merely the mechanical result of a welter of upstream causes, all acting inexorably through unfathomably numerous chains of cause and effect but are the result of God’s direction of me to navigate impossible situations effectively with remarkably frequent ‘strokes of luck’.
The strokes of luck are statistically improbable.
One acquires the teleological sense of a destination towards which one is being firmly guided, if only one submits.