You know, your daddy was always asking questions.”

I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don’t think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. (.) Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. I guess believing is just like math: some people get it right out of the chute, and some have to struggle for it. “How old were you when you started believing, do you remember?”Īunt Elner paused for a moment. Often we find that the destination we set out for originally is finally not where we end up.” You always have the possibility to change your course by way of your navigation, and you could be led to do this either out of choice or necessity. Failing to decide your goal and set out to reach it is to accept a destiny of not accomplishing anything in your life. What is important is to decide on your goal and to launch your boat into the unknown, into the vast waters of the ocean. Everything that is beyond your control is what decides your destiny. Your free will is to choose your destination and to navigate towards that goal. Perhaps you will reach your destination…however, there are factors which you don’t have any control over the weather conditions, the wind, the currents… perhaps you will end up where you set out for, perhaps at a completely different place than you had imagined, perhaps even at the bottom of the ocean. “You have a small sailboat…you fix a destination and you set out upon the immense ocean…You have a number of tools to pilot your boat and to navigate, and perhaps a crew to help you towards reaching the place you’ve decided to go.

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