Today, Tuesday 10th Feb 2009, the day was cold but without snow as I walked my usual route. I met my window cleaner soon after I left the house.

He had had no luck in the lottery last Saturday but had experienced major luck today when he parked outside a customer’s house. The owner of his house told him to move his car since the large branches of a pine tree weighed down by the snow were beginning to crack under the weight.

He wisely moved his car and started work. About ten minutes later, he heard a loud noise. He ran out to the road and saw that a huge branch had just missed his car. He might well have been killed.

I had experienced similar ‘luck’ as a boy in a Japanese Concentration camp in the middle of China. I was sitting outside the family hut when I noticed a soldier walking in my direction.

He was spinning his revolver around his finger like Billy the Kid. I moved back into the hut as he came closer. As he passed where I had been sitting the gun went off. The bullet might have killed or wounded me.

Was this luck or the guidance of God? Was it the work of Guardian angels or just a natural survival instinct or intuition. Was it simply commonsense. The possible danger was obvious in both incidents. Maybe it was a mixture of some or all of these factors.