by Joseph Edwin Pineda

Created on: May 05, 2009   Last Updated: May 07, 2009

Bruce Nolan is a TV reporter with high hopes of becoming an anchor one day and with such high hopes, dreams, and aspirations, cannot seem to catch a break in life. He believes that everyone and everything is against him, including God. Interestingly enough, the old saying, "nice guys finish last," almost sums up his life. In a "dog eat dog" society, Bruce cannot seem to climb that corporate ladder, not even one step while all the world around him, girlfriend, colleagues, dog and life passes him by. Bruce is the kind of person, for example whose life is at ground zero while the rest of Buffalo, where he resides, is standing above him on a chair. Bruce comes along with his pessimistic and half-empty glass mentality pulling down the masses around him with little or no effort at all.

Bruce is not such a bad person, it is just his luck. Bruce in is heart of hearts does aspire the achievement of success, however cannot seem to conquer the slightest anthills of life.

After much complaining, a self-induced life crises, and God cursing, he receives a call. Literally, God the almighty calls him out and has a life altering experience opportunity for Bruce. With hesitation not believing what was going on, Bruce takes God's challenge and is endowed with special limited godly power.

With such a propensity toward negative and selfish ambitions, Bruce uses his newfound powers to achieve personal success. However, these new heavenly gifts only act as an amplifier for new and improved ways of being selfish; "How can this benefit me?"

There were several times that God had to divinely intervene in the life of Bruce after his special endowment of powers in order to help Bruce make the right wise decisions. However, the most impactful was when Bruce kept hearing the voices of millions in his head. His clouded carnal/godly mind could not fathom the situation at hand. Bruce was oblivious to the fact that people have a personal relationship with God and communicates with Him on a daily basis through what we as Christians call prayer. In addition, the prayers do not stop. People have needs, people have wants, and people just want to spend time with their God. God had to help Bruce out, just as He does all. God gave very special wisdom to Bruce saying, "Answer them." Bruce did answer the people, however not wisely, not appropriately. Chaos broke forth and God had to intervene again.

Through God's kind and graceful interventions on behalf of Bruce, Bruce was able to figure out the

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