Divine accident

Do you ever have something unfortunate happen that throws your entire day off and alters your plans?  I was going to go see a friend today when my car had a catastrophic event that mandated I cripple home rather than travel on.  Have you ever considered that these events may happen for a reason?  That is something that I do to try to better understand this sort of misfortunes. Maybe it's only a coping mechanism, or maybe it's legit, I don't know. Regardless, I always try to see these catastrophes in light of how they could have saved me from a worse fate.  Perhaps I'd have been involved in a fatal car accident today had I not broke down where I did.  Maybe I'd have gotten hurt doing what my friend and I had planned.  Or maybe I was just unlucky and needed to better maintain my car.  But where is the destiny in that?