If only there had been an intervention

I read a very sad story yesterday. A young teacher drove to work, climbed out of her van, locked the car, forgetting that her young baby daughter was safely strapped into her carseat. The mother taught all day, no doubt celebrating that the end of the school year was Friday, and that she could spend more time with her little daughter. How horrified she was when she came out to her van to discover that her little girl had died due to the extreme temperatures in the car. Was the baby in the car because her mom planned to drop her off at daycare? Was she going to visit the school for the day? An end of the year treat? Why couldn't this mom have gotten a timely message, an intervention if you will, so that she could have rushed to the van in time to save her daughter? In the case of the house washed away down the river last month, why couldn't have someone knocked on the door evacuating the families and saving eight lives? About the sightseeing boat that capsized on the Yangtze river killing over 400 people. What if something had detained the boat so that it wasn't at the critical point in the river? How can people be on such a collision course with disaster, both with other people and with nature? I remember sitting in the car in the bank parking lot, waiting for my husband to finish his business. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the car next to me begin to slowly back up. The driver was still in the bank. I hopped out of the car and held the other vehicle until the owner came out, saving the car from crashing into the cars at the bottom of the hill. Many times, people have intervened in my or my family's life. I was lost in Chicago and a woman showed me the way. Many years ago, when my daughter was a toddler she opened the front door and unbeknownst to us went down the street. Two young girls brought her to our neighbor's house and our neighbors brought her home.