Divine Reincarnation?

Those who know me closely will vouch for the fact that I am one of those people who do not come across as the religious types . But one incident is etched in my mind which forces me to think otherwise.
My father works in a bank and on that account we get transferred a lot. And back in 2001, we got a new car while my father was posted in trivandrum. And since my mother is an ardent devotee of lord Ganesha, a brass figurine of Him was placed in the car. A couple of years went by and we meanwhile had shifted to Pune. That was the time when we appointed a driver as me and my sister had to travel a great deal for school and tutions.
Our driver was a 70 year old and apparently well versed in the Hindu religion.
One day , out of the blue, he asked my mother if we had been having trouble with our car lately. My mom replied that we had been having minor scratches and knocks here and there, as is common in big cities but nothin major.
The incident was soon forgotten, until the car started giving unprecedented trouble. This was when our driver uncle intervened and stated that the Ganesha idol in our car had the trunk rolled to the left side and that was considered inauspicious especially in a vehicle as those idols had to be specifically placed facing an east-west direction. And after a lot of frenzied consulting as in most religious issues, it was concluded that our driver was right and the remedy was to offer the figurine into a river along with betel leaves and change money.
That decided, myself , and my parents set out one evening to do the above said ritual. We reached the banks of the river and parked our car, but could not find a way to go to the river. and the instructions specifically stated that we were, under any circumstances, not to throw the figurine into the river. So we circled the banks of the river for 3 hours with no luck and finally decided to come back to the car and leave. We reached the car and were about to get in when we saw a group on pundits nearby. So we enquired as to how to enter the river bank, and to our surprise, they said that we were standing right at the entrance and that the view had been obscured by a pandaal that had been erected for the upcoming ganeshotsav. So slightly baffled, we went and immersed our figurine, got back and drove home.
life went on and we didn't give the incident much thought.
In a couple of weeks my father went to Lucknow for a seminar and the host gave him a memento. He came back home and we opened to present, to find a bronze wall hanging of Lord Ganesha, with the trunk rolled to the left!!! Call it coincidence, call it God's will, The hanging still resides in our house to this day and along with it resides a lot of awe and respect for it in all our hearts.