>> what do you say to people when they come to you and say, go gosh, i'm not sure if this was my destiny, this was supposed to happen, or if i should have made a different decision, if my path would have taken me somewhere else. >> it's important to consider or note that god has the plan, but we make the decisions. and god knows all, he sees all, and even when he prescripted the plan for our life, he was aware in advance of the decisions that we would make. and i teach my congregation, even when we make wrong decisions, prescripted in our plan were detours to get us back on his track if we make that our goal and our aim. >> very interesting discussion. what do you think about this? do we have free will, or does fate control us? go to our belief blog. the discussion has already begun. cnn.com/belief. the federal government will shut down friday if congress does not pass a new budget bill. what is the beef on the hill