Are Miracles just Reversed Expectations?

To answer that question simply, yes.

Before I delve into that, I want to state that I'm a religious person.  That is who I am, and so as I share my perspectives on the reversed expectations I've run into throughout my life I can't help but have religious views seep into the narrative.  That being said, I am in no way trying to peddle my views, or force you to accept my perspective.  In fact, if you have a differing view I'd love to hear it as long as you're willing to discuss; to share views but not try and enforce views.  So, that being said, here's my view.

I don't believe things happen by luck or coincidence.  I believe there is a higher power, and that He is our Heavenly Father; the Father of our spirits.  And He loves us.  Based on that love, He plays an active role in our lives, striving to guide us on a path that will, in the long run, be the best for us.

And, inherent in that guidance, I believe God orchestrates reversed expectations in our lives from time to time.

To illustrate this I'd like to refer back to the car accident I referred to in my earlier posts.

So, as I explained, I pulled into an intersection cautiously and was t-boned on the passenger side by a vehicle going approximately 75-80 km/hr.  From the force of the impact the vehicle I was in careened off the road and hit a telephone pole on someone's front lawn.  And that's where the miracles started.  Or in other words, that's where the reversed expectations came into play.

Now you may be a bit incredulous about the thought that I could find miracles in the midst of a situation that led to me being catastrophically impaired, but there are actually a lot of them.  First, the state of the other driver.  Based on the fact that the accident led to me sustaining a severe brain injury, the expectation would be that the other driver would have been severely injured as well.  But that was reversed.  The other driver only broke his ankle.  And how is that a miracle for me?  Well, I was the one who entered the intersection without properly "looking both ways", for lack of a better term.  It was my fault.  And if I was the reason that someone else was severely injured, let's just say that wouldn't have improved my situation.  In fact, I think my recovery would have slowed down drastically if I had been worried about the impact my decisions had on someone else.  So to me, this is the first of the reversed expectations I classify as miracles.

And they don't stop there...

• The day was hot, so one would expect people to be inside enjoying air conditioning or fans.  But the person on who's lawn I ended up on was outside.  Those inside their homes didn't hear the accident and weren't aware of what had happened.
• The man on whose lawn I ended up was cutting his grass.  One wouldn't expect the timing of the accident to be such that he had just finished cutting the grass around the telephone pole.  But it did, and I didn't harm him when I was propelled onto his property.
• Not everyone is trained in first aid, in fact the percentage of Canadians currently trained in first aid is dangerously low.  So, the expectation would be that the man on whose lawn I landed wouldn't be trained.  But he was.  And he knew to hold my head up to clear my airway for the 20-30min until first responders arrived.
• My prognosis, or the expectation of the doctors, was that I wouldn't survive the first 48hrs.  I'm not sure how this expectation was reversed, but somehow it was
• As part of my injury, I had right sided hemiparesis, meaning my right side lost it's strength almost to the point of being paralyzed along my right side.  The expectation is that would be a huge problem.  Well, as one of my high school teachers pointed out, because I'm right handed it means I'd get that strength back faster than if my left side had been impacted.
• Etc.

There are so many expectations that were reversed that made this hard situation easier than it could be.  And to me,

That's what miracles are, divinely appointed reversed expectations that make hard things easier.

So, based on the above definition, what divinely appointed reversed expectations have you seen in your life?  And how have they made things easier for you?