{"id":1615,"date":"2012-06-04T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2012-05-30T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T21:13:24","slug":"choose-the-course-of-your-destiny-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2012\/06\/choose-the-course-of-your-destiny-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Choose the Course of Your Destiny (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your nature is not fixed. It can be transformed. This amazing quality, the inherent potential mutability of our nature, is what sets us above all of God\u2019s countless other creations. And this fact about our unique nature also empowers us in a very special way. Each of us is created with the power to choose the course of our own destiny.<\/p>\n<p>But before you can change the course of and learn to design your destiny, you must first gain access to that secret place within yourself where your own future is being created moment by moment by moment.<\/p>\n<p>This truly timeless place, where all your life choices are made for you, is what we understand, in concept, as the present moment. But this state of true now is not just an idea. It\u2019s a place of extraordinary and measureless power, for the true present moment is actually a cosmic seed of a sort from out of which springs all that comes later . . . [to be continued]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your nature is not fixed. It can be transformed. This amazing quality, the inherent potential mutability of our nature, is what sets us above all of God\u2019s countless other creations. And this fact about our unique nature also empowers us in a very special way. 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