What motivates mankind to thrive on?  To continue day after day, putting one foot in front of the other?  I believe the desires to survive, learn, love, procreate, and prosper largely motivate us. But why do we seek these things?  Where did these desires come from? Is God the one who created and controls these desires or are these desires independent of God?  If our desires are not independent of God, are we independent at all in how we live?  Are we really in control of anything?  For if G