No luck here!

Until recently, my family was the proud owner of two wonderful cats. We loved them and they loved........our couches (oh, and us too!). Anyway, due to my daughter's allergies, we had to put them up for adoption. For over a month I searched for someone who might be willing to take them both. We didn't really want them to get split up since they are fond of each other and use to having one another to play with. But alas, no one stepped up to the plate. So about a week ago, my husband reluctantly packed up the cats and drove them to the local "no kill" shelter. It broke our hearts to know that they would be locked in a cage until someone adopted them and would almost certainly not be placed in the same home.
While waiting at the shelter, a woman began to talk to my husband about the cats. After a few minutes of conversation, she asked if she could take both cats home! My husband, at this point rather in shock, said oh course. She offered to let him bring the cats to her house himself so he could see were they would be living and make sure everything was alright. He arrived at the house only to find out this woman lived 5 houses down from very close family friends whom he has known for almost 20 years. The house was wonderful and the cats will get much needed attention there. I am sure they will be quite happy. And so this story has a happy ending after all.
What surprised me was the response that I received from people after telling them this story. Most consisted of words such as luck, fate, destiny, etc. My husband and I responded differently. As he finished telling me over the phone what had just happened, we both exclaimed "Praise God!"
And so this brings me to the main point of my blog. Why is it that people are so quick to give credit to luck or fate or destiny. Personally I don't think there is such a thing as luck. Alright, maybe when you find yourself at the casino, but even then I'm not sure. Last time I checked, there was an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God that is much greater than any amount of luck or fate that could exist. The world is so quick to blame God when things go wrong. Why does God let bad things happen, people ask. Yet these same people find good fortune in life and credit good luck or fate. Let me be the one to set the record straight. God is so good. And he is working in your life even if you turn a blind eye. In my opinion, luck is for people not willing to open their eyes to the glory of God's love and fate is for people not willing to work hard to have faith.
It wasn't luck that our cats found a good home, it was God watching over us. When I took a tough philosophy class in college and certain events happened that semester that made all our tests take home, that wasn't fate, that was God.(Thank you, thank you, thank you God!) And when I hit a chip shot onto the green and its a horrible shot, but somehow bounces off the hill and rolls into the cup, that's just God's little way of giving me quick laugh. Why? Cause God is good.....all the time. So next time something happens to you or someone you know and you find yourself ready to say "How lucky" or "It was fate", how 'bout instead saying "Praise God" or "God is so good"
Why? Simple. Because He is.