Timing is one of those issues which leads us to philosophical questions and conclusions. To what do I attribute my happenstance (be it good fortune or bad luck)? Was I in the right place (or the wrong one, for that matter) because of Fate, my personal style, intuition, foresight, by natural law or Providence?

A materialist worldview will cause one to stop at the level of the natural order. There is either a natural cause or no cause at all. That answer in and of itself is sufficient explanation for the person who believes that all there is in the world is the world.

A person who believes that there is another dimension to life, a spiritual one, will believe that the God who created the world is also involved in it. Such a person will see the hand of God in life circumstances and explains life events in light of this set of beliefs.

So we see then, with issues of timing as well as other matters, that the philosophical commitments we begin with shape the kinds of questions we are willing to propose and answers we accept.

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