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There cards we are dealt and the cards we are born with and like fingerprints are unique to our talents, character, and personality.  

They define who we are, who we strive and choose to be.

If we choose to be ruthless, throw away our cards of the spirit, our blessings of love, peace, compassion, heart, and soul, then that is what we will be in the end, heartless, soulless, mindless, and ruthless individuals.

What we hold dear, nurture or feed, is what we will become.  

What is to be our fate is in the hand we are dealt. What is to be our destiny is how we play the hand we are dealt.  

No matter what we are dealt, how we are tested, whether we live in fear, give way to hate and cowardice, is in our hands.

Our ultimate destiny whether heaven or hell is how we play our cards.  

We can have cards with answers on how to create a prosperous, peaceful society, cards to cure every disease, but if we do not believe in those cards, give up hope, then the answers and cures are useless, for those cards are discarded before anything can come from it.  

Then what remains are the cards of hopelessness, despair, fear, malcontent, and those would be the cards we hold and play.  

As the cards of hopelessness beget more hopelessness, insecurities more fear, what will be fed are the false answers in ignorance of power and control. For we have no power or control over our fate, only our destiny.

And we would have lost ourselves before any tests of destiny and sealed our fate in despair and hopelessness, fear and cowardice, self-loathing and self-destruction before any hand. Then the greatest enemy we face would be ourselves.  

If we want to be our own friend, not enemy, and live our lives with purpose and leave a meaningful mark, we need to keep the cards that give us hope and light our destiny, and play our hand to meet that destiny with love, compassion, empathy, and bravery.  

And, in the end, if we want to be matched and sorted to heaven, we need to keep the cards that give us entry, the cards of love, peace, grace, purity of heart, and all that is holy.  

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