This faculty of understanding helps us in life to fulfill our fate in life when curveballs are thrown at us, like the death of a close relative or the loss of one’s good reputation. Whichever way god predetermines our lives, be it a beggar, a king or a priest, we must “play this part skillfully” for he is the playwright and we are his actors (Handbook, 16). The misfortunes we might encounter are simply a result of overstepping boundaries or misinterpreting the role god has handed to us. For instance, there are things in life we cannot control but still attempt to such as avoiding death. Death is “nothing dreadful… but instead the judgment about death that it is dreadful—that is what is dreadful” (Handbook, 13). If we change the way
This faculty of understanding helps us in life to fulfill our fate in life when curveballs are thrown at us, like the death of a close relative or the loss of one’s good reputation. Whichever way god predetermines our lives, be it a beggar, a king or a priest, we must “play this part skillfully” for he is the playwright and we are his actors (Handbook, 16). The misfortunes we might encounter are simply a result of overstepping boundaries or misinterpreting the role god has handed to us. For instance, there are things in life we cannot control but still attempt to such as avoiding death. Death is “nothing dreadful… but instead the judgment about death that it is dreadful—that is what is dreadful” (Handbook, 13). If we change the way