A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy. In the United states of America and Canada (although also available in other parts of the Western world), it is usually served with Chinese food in Chinese restaurants as a dessert. The message inside may also include a list of lucky numbers (used by some as lotterynumbers) and a Chinese phrase with translation. Fortune cookies in their current form were first served in California by immigrants who based the cookie on a traditional Japanese cracker.^{[citation needed]} The cookies are little-known in mainland China or Taiwan.

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Many do not know that fortune cookies really don't originate from China. I first read about this biscuit in the Joy Luck Club in secondary school, lol. It's kinda funny 'cos Americans tend to assume (even nowadays) that the Chinese have certain traditions which we have never practised.

Anyways, I had the chance to eat fortune cookies during this Chinese New Year for the first time in my life. My first fortune cookie came last week when one of the boys in school brought this New Year goodie to share. And my "fortune" note told me something about relationships and couples. Can't remember the exact phrase because I was just eating the cookie for fun.

But what happened next was just weirdly coincidental. We had CNY lunch over at my cell group leader's house yesterday. Like everyone else, I picked up a fortune cookie which took me a long time to open. And guess what? The message was, "Love is in the air."

As Christians, we tend to brush off these kind of things, thinking that they are but mere superstitions. But I choose to believe that God can speak to us in many different ways, even through fortune cookies. However, of course, one should always practise discernment, with the word of God and through prayer.

It's just weird 'cos somehow I feel that the messages from these two fortune cookies were not coincidental. Personally, I feel that this is not the time for myself to think about this, despite the fact that my heart wants to. Right now, I just want to focus on pursuing Jesus, my job and ministry alone. If God does bring it to me, I really wouldn't know how to react.