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My family were attending a High School football game, and were sitting high up in the bleachers. My little sister\u2013a skinny little thing\u2013was seven years old. When the home team scored a touchdown everyone stood up and cheered. She did too, and as she did, she slipped through the narrow gap between the seat of the bleacher and the footrest. My mother saw her go, and watched helplessly as her daugher fell nearly 100 feet to the ground below. Furthermore, she watched, almost in slow motion, as my sister\u2019s small body was headed for the large concrete footer for the beams that held up the bleachers. Then at the last moment\u2013just before her head hit the concrete\u2013my mother said it was as if someone simply shoved the little girl sideways, and my sister landed, unharmed, on the soft grass next to the footer.<\/div>\n

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Some people ask why God doesn\u2019t stop all bad things from happening. Maybe in any given day the guardian angels prevent countless bad things from happening. Think of all the plane crashes, car accidents, dangerous falls and terrible crimes that are prevented, but we\u2019ll never know here and now what they are because, of course, they never happened.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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