Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting

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Tempt is, well, the Devil tempts us when there is something we want to do, but we know it is bad.”
“Why does God let us do bad things?”
“Because He wants us to make up our own minds.”
“Even to do bad things, right under His nose?”
“He doesn’t want us to do bad things, but to know good from bad and be good of our own free choice.”
“Why?”
“Because He loves us and wants us to love Him, but if He just made us be good, we couldn’t really love Him enough. You can’t love to do what you are made to do, and you couldn’t love God if He made you.”
“But if God can do anything, why can’t He do that?”
“Because He doesn’t want to,” their mother said, rather impatiently.

Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting

Thomas Kinkade Spirit of Christmas painting
Thomas Kinkade San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf painting

Actor Tom Hanks has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in Cast Away, which debuted in top place this holiday weekend.
Dec. 24 — Tom Hanks had a lot of company on his desert island over the weekend. Hanks' new movie Cast Away, in which he plays a man stranded for four years after a plane crash, took in $30.1 million this weekend to debut as the top film. The movie reunites Hanks and Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis.Last weekend's No. 1 movie, Mel Gibson's What Women Want, slipped to second place with $16.3 million, pushing its total to $64.9 million in 10 days of release, according to studio estimates today.