Christmas Tradition

Every Christmas my mom makes our family do the advent wreath and the Joshua tree. With the advent wreath we light one candle the first week of advent then one more each week after. Till Christmas day when we light the middle candle, which represents Jesus's birth. Sounds fun, right? Not after doing it for eighteen years. We read the same passages and attempt to sing the same songs year after year. If that's not bad enough the Joshua tree is even worse. Each day of December is represented by a patch that symbolizes something that happened in the bible. Every day, right after dinner, we stop and have to read a passage about the patch and put the patch on the cloth tree. It was fun the first ten years, but after eighteen years it gets old. Although this "tradition" stuff gets old, it reminds me of our happy family. Everybody getting together at one time to share a special moment is what all families need and I'm glad I have that.:)

Questions about Click

After watching the movie "Stranger than fiction" my questions were mainly pointed towards how God fits in with the whole fate issue. In the movie the answer was that God controls everything Howard Click does in his life. Emma Thompson plays the distressed writer that turns out to be controlling Click's life. What I saw was that she symbolizes God, she also writes the book in an apartment high up in the building that is painted all white with minimal appliances.
In "Stranger than fiction" God seems to control all of the humans life, but what I see sometimes in other movies or books is that God sets up the humans life and lets the human live knowing the human will do everything he wants.

I wish I had free will...

I'm a big fate/karma guy. I feel that we as people think that we are making our own choices but all our choices are part of one big plan. Meaning that every choice we make has already been planed out. "God is a comedian with an audience that is afraid to laugh.(anonymous)" Life can be like a well planed out joke. The comedian tells a story that builds and builds, and may have small jokes in between, and he tells the punch line that seems like the funniest punch line ever. You laugh the hardest you ever have laughed before because your able to connect the punch line with many details in the story. Sometimes when a life changing experience happens or a real cool thing happens your able to look back at your "story" and connect small or large details.
FATE IS DEFINITELY COOLER THAN A COOPER!!!