What a question it is to ask one if they believe in fate or destiny?! We are ever trying to prove, validate, convince ourselves and each other of such things as fate and destiny, in order to sleep comfortably at night.

Globally, this question can be asked, without anyone balking or becoming defensive about their beliefs. If you want to clear a room, just replace the last two words in the prompt question with GOD!

In my humble opinion, the words are interchangeable. Try an experiment for yourselves. Go back through your answer to the prompt and replace fate/destiny words with God and then reread it to yourself to see what it becomes.

I do believe in God, fully, and I am fated and destined to reach heaven at the end of this life. While I cannot say about anything else for certainty, on this I will place my belief, He created all, sent His only son Jesus to live with us and die for us, and…

“O Lord, you have searched me, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You hem me in – behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, to lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your spirit, where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:1-18

Call it fate or destiny, if you will… I say I believe in GOD!

Here, have a cookie…