On Page 76 of N.D. Wilson’s Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl (my favorite book of the year):

In Virginia, there lived a man named Roy Sullivan.  He was struck by lightning seven times.  I’m told rough odds of this happening are out of 1.6 x 10 to the 25th (sixteen septillion).  Which is like one man winning a state lotto four times, though the luck is of a different stripe.  Find me the simplest explanation.

Did Roy believe in God?  Did he like Him?

In 1983, at the age of 71, he killed himself.  The lightning had nothing to do with it.  Rumor was (according to Reuters) that he’d been jilted in love.

And on page 86:

After the fourth time Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning, he allegedly told a reporter that a higher power was trying to kill him.

That’s ridiculous.  A higher power was not trying to kill him.  That would have been easy.  Every last one of us is bagged in the end.  The more impressive trick is striking someone with lightning seven times and keeping them alive.