Do you believe in luck and fate?

I believe in luck and fate to a point. I still think we have free choice and we can change our destinies.

I don't necessarily believe in luck or fate. What I do believe in is that there is a higher power (however you define Him) who wants the best for us. So he is constantly trying to get us into a position to receive the best. I believe he brings people and situations into our lives that will help us grow. Things often happen for a reason, weather we can see those reasons clearly or not at the time. I believe He is always trying to give us what we need, not necessarily what we want. I believe we can reject God's best and completely miss what He wants for us. That is where free will comes in. Lets take the story of Adam and Eve as an example, simply because most people have a working knowledge of that story. So God wanted the best for Adam and Eve. To live forever in the garden and enjoy all that he had made for them. He gave them everything they needed, but I believe he didn't want a couple of robots that just said...yes master and did whatever he asked. He wanted them to love him of their own free will. So he placed in the garden the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He gave them a warning not to eat it, and told them the consequences of eating it. Essentially providing them a way to exorcise their free will. They ended up disobeying him. He didn't stop trying though to bring good things into their lives however. He had a plan B. And he is constantly, i believe, trying to bring us to that perfect plan that he has for our lives. So I don't know if I completely went off subject here or not, but it kinda makes sense to me. I can walk the path that God has destined for me through my own free will, or I can choose a different path that has its own consequences attached to it. Course its all a matter of faith anyway though, right?