Losing/Finding My Religion

Well it's a new day and I am surviving.  Nothing has changed, but is some strange way it has.  A week ago I was spiraling down the rabbithole with no idea where my life was headed or what I was going to do with myself, yet today I'm ok.  I'm not ok because time has gone by or because life is better or because I have taken a more positive outlook on life.  I'm ok because I had some pretty random and very unexpected things happen to me and without me even knowing it, they were exactly what I needed.  How is that possible?  How does that happen?  It was as if someone else knew what I was going through, knew all about my specific personality and how I worked and arranged for some completely out-of-the-blue things to happen that would make me feel better.  It was the most accurate definition of "perfect timing" I has ever experienced.  As I think back on it, this wasn't the first time this has ever happened to me.  I can remember times before when I thought I was at the end for one reason or another and something reached down and pulled me back up.  Before, I didn't really notice it as much as I did this time because this time the things that happened were absolutely unexplainable.  There was no reason for the things that happened and never in a million years could I have expected these particular events, but I was touched by each of them in a way I will never forget.

Now I'm in no way a religious person.  If there was a section on the census for the classification of my mind, I would have checked the "scientific" box, no doubt.  I have always been a man of fact and proof, if you can't prove it, I don't buy it.  Yet there are things that happen all around the world all the time that are clearly documented as havng no explanation.  A man is lost in the desert and just as he reaches the brink of starvation and dehydration, he finds a bottle of cold water and a fresh footlong from subway.  A woman gets hit by a car head on, no seatbelt, no airbag, pregnant and walks out of the car without a scratch.  These things happen everyday and no one can explain how they happen or even how they are possible.  Of course some people do have an explanation, and his name is God.  Do I believe in God?  Well yes, I do.  Not because of having faith, more because of a lack of arrogance that keeps me from believing that we have total control of everything that happens in this world.  But I have to say, in light of recent events, I may have a little faith I didn't know about.  I'm not sure, I haven't been checked. 
Then again, how can there not be something out there somewhere doing something that we don't control?  On top of that, why do we have to be touched personally in order to believe in that something?  I had a discussion on facebook wth a friend the other day about this same subject.  People can believe in aliens, ghosts and magic and not believe in religion.  Movies about the supernatural or science fiction gross millions but religious movies barely make a buzz.  Scientists say that humans must be really concieted to think that with the millions of miles of space, we are the only ones in existence.  Yet some people have no problem believing that with the supposedly small percentage of brain power that we actually use on an average, we can actually understand everything there is to know about our existence in life and everything around us.  Well I have been to church many times and sang in the choir and I can't say that I have total belief in the stories of miracles and the trust that with faith I will be okay, but I my eyes, mind and hear are open to the possibilities.  I think God is watching and maybe He uses Fate, Coincidence and Chance as His tools of choice to make things happen.  Maybe its just one big crap shoot and luck is all we really have, I don't know.  There are times when I think that God gets unfair credit for good things that happen and is taken too easy on for bad things that happen, but sometimes...well sometimes things happen that aren't good or bad, just needed.  When that happens, I can't help but to thank God.