Divine Intervention

I caught a brief segment on MTV where a rock singer and song writer was telling his life story and had entitled it “Divine Intervention” That seemed a bit strange, so I listened. It seems that this singer/songwriter had just gotten out of the military and headed south to find warmer weather.

He only had $40, a duffel bag and his cassette player and so he had to hitchhike. On the way to Memphis he got caught in an ice storm and while trying to hitch a ride, he got deathly cold. He sat down on the ground and almost frozen and began to slip in and out of consciousness. He remembered turning on his cassette player for some comfort and listening to Pink Floyd sing “I Wish You Were Here” He also remembers that he sang those words to God as a prayer just before he lost consciousness completely.

The next thing he remembered was that someone was taking his duffel bag and he thought “Let them steal it, I’m out of here anyway!” But this same good samaritan also picked him up and took him to a hospital. When he was laid in the car to go to the hospital, what was playing on the radio of the driver but “I Wish You Were Here.”

When he got to Memphis, “I Wish You Were Here” became his theme song and he met his future wife while singing that same song. Incredible or not?