Things that happen in the course of life, how much are we in control of and how much is beyond our control?
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Well its kinda of like if you need a job. You can pray to God all you want for a job but if you never put in a application or apply for a job how can he bless you w/ one. I think of my relationship with God as a give and take. I give Him control of my life and He takes me where he wants me to be.
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.\n    John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"\n\nYou know, "seize the day" and all that. Life seems to be so much about anticipation and memories, it's rarely about the here & now.
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Good!\nyou can control or do what ever you want!
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life. I know that that's not in the form of a question, but that's the beauty of it. It encompasses everything :)
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You think that you are in control.  You think that you are making the choices.  You can do something and finish or you can stop.......
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Time is the entity that surrounds us. It's what keeps us in line and on track. Time are the moments and memories that we have with friends and family. Time is limited. Unpredictable. We can not control it, it has a mind of it's own. whatever happens in time, is beyond our reach.
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To stop working correctly or become out of control
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Only if you plan on doing things in life.  Drive a car at the speed limit, (distance/time), get to where you want to go on time (rate/distance), pay your utility bills, taxes, see if your paycheck is correct, plan for retirement, build or buy a house, go shopping, prepare a meal, have children.  The list is endless (infinite).\nYou decide what you want to do with your life, and those of us that have learned how math and physics affect us will laugh at those of you who haven't.
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Life is a cycle:\n1. At birth we cry,at death family cry.\n2. at age between we try to walk, at age of 90-100 we try to see if we still can work.\n3. At 15-20 we try to get our driving license, at 65-80 we try to see if we can still drive\n4. At 16-25 we try to have a first sex, at 60-70 we try to see if still we can have sex.\n5. At 20-40 we try to make money and investment and at 50-70 we try to live with our savings and investments.\n\nvery seconds of life is worth living.So later when we grow old we dont have to regret that we didnt do this or that.
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That's what brought me here to answer this question :-)\n\nSeriously though, I believe that we have our own will in life, but we are 'guided'.  That's why, at times, people do extra-ordinary things and events without explanation sometimes occur.
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There are things that happen in this world that are above our understanding.  If we were to know how everything worked, we would be God.  Not understanding everything makes us human.
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Life is actually a wonderful experience that requires planning and a little room for spontaneity. When we plan we know with surety that things will happen a certain way and that increases our security in ourselves and the world around us.In life, the could haves and should haves can become a reality if we develop the desire to achieve them and then just do it!Then we can sit there and know how we go got here instead of wondering and at the same time recognize that it was meant to happen simply because it allowed us to fulfill our roles and callings in life.The where it is going part is a portion of a larger picture, that is everyone playing their part and contributing to personal and collective growth and development.
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too much control is bad\nits interesting
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Apart from the death of my father, I can't remember an occasion when things have gone downhill and I wasn't in some way responsible for it, either directly or through inaction.\n\nSo I agree, we have a lot to do with our own life situations.
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Whithout God in your life... YUP!\nA life well lived is not measured in the accumulation of things, but rather through unparalleled experiences!
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Yeh I think it probably is based on the decisions we make in our lives, I think our paths are only mapped out to a certian degree and judging by what choices we make it can be steered off course.
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:}\nWhat you cannot gain or hold on to by reason and spiritual right you do by force.