Coincidence or God at work?

It's hard to be a believer these days. Everybody has an opinion and everybody wants facts. That leap of faith is easy to take, but hard to defend. A perfect example:
A pilot walks into a saloon in Alaska and the bartender says, "Oh Fred we haven't seen you at church lately. Where have you been?"
The pilot says "I don't go to church any longer, I have lost my faith."
The bartender says "But why?"
The pilot says "Last month I crashed my plane and I was trapped in the wreckage. I prayed to God to get me out but nothing happened. Day after day I prayed, but nothing. I decided that there is no God and I am going to die and there is nothing after death. This is how I lost my faith."
So the bartender says "But you DID escape from there. You are here and alive!"
The pilot says, "Oh, that had nothing to do with God. . . some damn Eskimo wandered by and pulled me out!! "
People attribute everything to something. God, Allah, Mother Earth- whatever you'd like to call him/her most of us agree that there is someone greater out there. Even an atheist believes in something.
Karma? Coincidence or God?