Which of these statements is true for you?

The persistent question of fate vs free will. I like to think I am here with a purpose, a role to fulfill. Simultaneously, I believe in my ability to not do that.

On the idea of destiny—or fate, rather— as it pertains to a preset future, I also believe a person’s fate is the most likely/plausible of all possible futures, the one that is most likely to occur given their present state and course of actions. As one who reads tarot cards, I’ve come to understand the future is always amenable to change insofar as the person is as well. If I continue to do what I do, and walk the path I am walking, I will invariably end up wherever it is that this path leads. But should I change paths, the end result may likely be different.

Fate and purpose, therefore are separate affairs in my eyes. And when one’s fate and purpose are in alignment, that is what I call destiny.

This does beg the question of divine intervention. Is there some ethereal force that has a hand in pushing us one way or another? Some force that makes thigs happen against our will? I would say perhaps. There are many forces acting on us every day. Some in our favor, some seemingly against us. The nature of the force, I suspect, depends on who’s telling the story.

 

ANDRAE!!!

I haven't seen you around here in forty-seven ages! I'm so glad you haven't forgotten us! How're things?

 

I am nothing. I have no power. I am like a grain of sand at the beach. There are billions of them but who am I?

I could try my whole life to be an astronaut but I'll become a busser in a retirement home.

I can stay inside my home for twenty years for fear of being killed just so a jet could go flying through my window, killing me.

I am a slave to my job and my body.

I make plans but GOD most high makes plans too. HE is the one who controls my fate. Because of HIM I am alive and healthy but because of HIM I am not a millionaire. Just some person who likes to write.

 

Minstrel!

I know! I’m sorry ha ha! It has been at least that long. I have missed you all. Of course I could never forget you.

I’m very well, I think. Been very busy with a lot of things. Primarily immersion in adult life, but also dabbling in the mysteries.

As one who pays attention to signs and omens, I have been guided back tonyou guys recently!

How are you?? What’s new in the world??