Coincidences are what gives, even the most cynical atheist, enough hope in life to get by.
Trust in God is really just an unnecessary outgrowth, an exaggeration playing on our innate trust that luck will come in some form or another.
How do we explain coincidence?
Laurence Browne steps in. He says that there are four ways to do that. None of them are mutually exclusive. If you assume all four are possible, then all four can be at work together.
I Random chance. [You work out how likely it is for something to take place. You will see something as random if it happens when everything is against it. That makes it amazing.]
II Natural causes. [We know that we can get hunches for no reason at all. Some of them will help us avoid trouble. That is also amazing].
III Supernatural causes. [Browne puts paranormal under the supernatural umbrella. Not all would do that. The paranormal seems to suppose that there are unknown natural laws that can do things that seem out of the ordinary. Telepathy. Ghosts. Clairvoyance. The supernatural is a stronger subject that supposes that there are powers that are not part of nature that can intervene. Examples are God, Jesus raising the dead and Jesus being sinless. A magic-like but not magical ability, like telepathy would be paranormal rather than supernatural. In practice though, it is impossible to see if a miracle such as a spinning sun in the sky is supernatural or a paranormal effect. Take Fatima 1917. If you dismiss ordinary causes, you could say paranormal forces sent images of a vision in the sky into the witnesses' brains. The sun miracle did not show up in observatories or in photographs. If you don't generally believe in the paranormal, you might consider it rare and that to be the prime example. If you think it is easy to see that Fatima was paranormal that is up to you. But if you say the resurrection of Jesus was supernatural, how do you rule out that the paranormal wasn't at work to fool the early believers? What if false memories were planted? If they could be misled, how much easier it is for you to be? Maybe the paranormal can ripple right down through the centuries and bewitch you? ]
IV Synchronicity is the last one. [It describes any coincidence that affects how you feel about life as a whole. It is a coincidence that has almost sacred meaning. That too is amazing.]
We have seen that we don't need say the supernatural to be struck with awe. We should not go that far.
Synchronicity, the last one, is the most important one of all. It shows that God and magic are not as important to us as we think! We just need to feel that in some important matter our luck can just change for the better and give our lives value. We must not see this hope as an excuse for any complacency. We must do our best for there is no guarantee things will suddenly turn around.
What if you surmise that miracles such as Jesus rising from the dead do happen? Suppose the evidence can show that miracles have occurred. You have to observe that pure luck can make it look like a wonder was a miracle when it was not. And also, a supernatural intervention can simulate being down to purely physical causes. For example, John's cancer can be explained by his treatment but was it? Correlation is not the same as causation. And unexplained does not necessarily mean inexplicable.
Statistician David Hand tells us that the extraordinarily rare hit of good or bad luck is commonplace and if I would let myself be more observant I would see something in that category at least once a month. He is thinking of wonders such as something like lightning striking the same thing twice.
I would add that if you put the crave for excitement and magic aside, and if you look for more boring and mundane strokes of luck or ill luck, you will notice how frequent they are.
The point is that the "small" wonders are the ones that count. They have a bigger impact overall.