Contact Points (Part 11)

Some forms of protection are loud.
Others are never noticed at all.
This video explores a quiet pattern that appears across personal testimony, religious tradition, and human behavior — moments where harm almost happens, but doesn’t.
Not through force.
Not through control.
Not through intervention.
Instead, through subtle shifts in perception that leave agency intact and responsibility unchanged.
From a single story in a park, to recurring themes in Christianity and Buddhism, this piece examines how outcomes can change without anyone being commanded, guided, or overridden — and why the most ethical forms of protection may be the ones that never announce themselves.
How many moments in life were not miracles…
but failures of catastrophe?