Any spirituality that tries to convince you that we can control the future is trying to deceive you. We can control our responses to things that happen, change our understandings of the meaning of events, and even make the best choices we can to avoid dangerous situations and similar things, but to a large extent events unfold as they will. Healthy spirituality teaches us to respond in more appropriate and life-giving ways, and by doing so we make everyone’s life just a little richer!