God has a purpose for everything

Two American youngsters living 100 miles south of New York plan to
spend a Saturday afternoon in a public park near New York along with
some of their friends (living north of New York)  who promise to  join
them at a certain specified time  right at the entrance to the park.
The plan is made, almost to the minute.

But the two, on their way to New York meet, first with a tire burst,
then halfway up with a hold-up by no less than the sheriff of the area
for speeding – both these incidents  taking off two hours from their
schedule. And then, after the hold-up, when they start the car, the
engine refuses to ignite and this causes a further delay of another
two hours because the cause is traced to be battery failure.  But
since they are only 25 miles from the park they decide to give it a
try even after the delay,  even though they are sure   their friends
would have given them up by this time.

But soon after,  they have to negotiate a long diversion of the route
in view of a nasty accident on the highway ahead of them; and this
diversion delays them as much as another hour, because they lose their
way! Thus there have been   five coincidences all working against them
and when they finally reach the park it is late evening and in fact
the park is closing its gates.

Still they enter and look for their friends. The park is deserted
since everybody has gone. They are about to curse their fate and
return to their car when they hear cries for  help from a lake in the
park. Rushing there they see two boys almost drowning. They jump in
and being first-aid-certificate holders themselves they are able to
save the two little boys of ten and twelve from certain drowning and
death. They think of the sequence of events that happened to them
during the whole trip. A few minutes earlier they had thought that
their journey was nothing but futile, their day had been spent in
vain, but now it became  clear that it was not so; because if they had
not arrived at this late hour near that lake, those two boys would
have died by drowning! This is a true story.  The Almighty has a
purpose for everything!