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This Mentality Irks Me

A while back, someone I know had been getting very lucky with certain things. It seemed as if they'd been catching all the breaks. So, I said, "Hey, you should go pay a buck or two and get a lotto scratch card" or whatever those things are called (shows how much I play). Her response?

"Sometimes I think God doesn't want me to have money."

I thought maybe she was talking about something else, so I said, "What? What do you mean?"

She replied with, "I've never won anything before."

I was going, "I know some people who have won more than their share of money, but they also spend more than they win or they lose it again to the slot machines. Do you think 'God' wanted them to have money?"

I don't like that mentality. It's the mental state of putting your entire life into a supernatural being's hands and giving up. When I was born, should I have muttered to myself, "I don't think God wants me to write, read, drive, type, play sports, or travel"? I don't think so. If a flight is delayed, should that be my cue that "God" doesn't want me to fly that day? Was epilepsy my hint that "God" didn't want me to graduate college, write books and make the most out of my life? No again. Heck, Bush went to war with Iraq based on lies, claiming that "God" told him it was the right thing to do. Yeah, right, and the Dakotas are south of Brazil.

"God," "God," "God," if one wants to believe in complete and total predestination, then so be it. But the funny thing about this is, the lady who told me this claimed to believe in free will. She seemed a little confuzzled between her words and her beliefs. Perhaps they're consistent, one is just wishful thinking, who knows? So, the moral of this story is not to put your excuses in "God's" hands, because you'll find that it'll limit you and what you can do in life. There you go, the sermon is over. It's now time for Kool-aid.
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