By Patrick Robinson
Over the course of your life you’ve probably had some close calls with disaster. If not you then you certainly know somebody who has.
In my case, I probably should have been gone more than ten times.
Six car wrecks in which the car was completely destroyed (I wasn’t driving in all of them), three heart attacks, a gall bladder that was 15 minutes from failing requiring emergency surgery, a moment when I was nearly swept under a log jam in a river and numerous traffic incidents where a swerve or a quick foot on the brake stopped what might have been.
Is there a conclusion to be drawn? A lesson to be learned? An understanding about chance, or fate or purpose that can be reached?
In Greek mythology it was thought that there were three goddesses who presided over the birth and life of humans. Each person's destiny was thought to be determined by the three Fates, the sisters Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos.