I receive a variation of this question about fate and destiny almost weekly. Here’s what came to my inbox this week:
Hi Summer,
I am excited to be writing to you. I just discovered Flowdreaming ten minutes ago, and I wanted to ask something. My Flow is equal to my thoughts and my emotions, and they tell the universe what I want. I understand that. I’m at a point in my life where I’m learning about Law of Attraction . . . but I do not fully grasp the difference between what God intends for you compared to what you want and gain for yourself. Could you help me please? -Lavana
Lavana, when you awaken to the idea that you are a powerful creator within your own life, this can bring up a conflict in your mind. You wonder, How can I create if some things were already pre-planned for me? You might think some events or people are there by fate, karma, or because it is God’s plan.
What I’ve seen over the years is this: when you begin looking at your life from a pure energy perspective, it’s like looking out at a super-highway, with a million “lanes” of light in front of you. You’re more likely to speed down some of these lanes than others, based on where you want to go, and what roads you’ve already put yourself on.
So things do come to you with a feeling of inevitability sometimes-because you’ve been cultivating (or driving down) that path, probably unknowingly, for a long, long time. Think of the energy of all your thoughts, actions, and feelings spooling out ahead of you in life. These arcs of energy pull in things complementary to what you’re now experiencing. When you begin to consciously change these arcs or paths of energetic attraction, you’re purposely swerving into a new lane.
If you say, What has God planned for me? then from a full Flowthinking perspective, you would rephrase that question instead to say, What new experiences can I give to God?There’s a lot of depth behind this question, which I fully answer in chapters 8, 9, and 10 of Creative Flowdreaming. God is not planning for you; God is receiving from you. God is curious to know what kinds of experiences you bring to It, and what you’ll make from the sandbox of physical life It has given to you. (You can also learn more about this perspective through this CD, which I made with my mother, Venus.)
If you believe that you are here for a reason, or to meet a soul mate, or for some other destined event, then ask your own Greater Self when, where, and how this desire will fruit for you. Ask God, too, to allow this new experience to flow easily into your life. Don’t wait for God’s plan, make your own and offer it up to God.
It may take awhile for this new understanding of destiny to settle in. But after awhile, you’ll come to see how fate, prophesy, and destiny are merely strong potentials that may or may not come into play in your life, like an ace or a deuce turning up in your hand of cards. This is good thing, because it means you can now work with God and come into an understanding of the godliness in yourself, instead of being at the mercy of God, when designing your own life.
