Life can be really odd sometimes, and filled with weird and bizarre coincidences, that I know that some people would call evidence of God working in people's lives.

Take the recent Friday night when we had to take our younger son to the Emergency Room at UM Hospital with the head injury from wrestling practice.

While we were waiting for our son to be seen by the triage nurses, in came an old professor of Dan's from when he was in graduate school. The two of them had gotten on well, and Dan had taught the professor's classes at UM-Dearborn for a term when the professor had been called to UM-Ann Arbor to cover for another professor. Anyway, because Dan had decided many years ago to build up his business rather than finish up his PhD (his dissertation has been half-written for years now), he had not seen or talked to this professor for a long. long time.

The professor had been hurt (which is why, of course, he had been in the ER that night) , and will be out of action for three weeks or so, following surgery to correct the broken bone. He was all upset over who would be able to cover for him in his classes at UM-Dearborn this term.

Well, of course, it all worked out. Dan, who is already known to the peoplel at Dearborn, and who had actually taught these two classes there before, will be able to cover for the professor. So the professor can relax, UM-Dearborn can relax, and Dan will pick up a nice bit of extra money in what is usually a slow time of year (other than snow removal) for his business.

And all because an injured professor and an injured 12 year old boy crossed paths in an emergency room on a cold Friday night...