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try alchemy.

God starts creation and man completes it. only God knows and only man experiences.

what does this mean? God can't experience anything. think of listening to a song, fighting the common cold, witnessing a flower that blossoms from seed and stem. all of these require time. God does not exist in time because time is a constraint of perception and God is unlimited.

so how does God get to experience anything and everything? through us. each of us is a little vessel for God to be able to experience. what you're living through, what you're experiencing, God wanted to experience it through you. it's your privilege to honor this chosen experience and make it the best it can be. it's your game, your movie, your story, that you get to live out. and as your experience unfolds, you'll know nothing. only God can know. man can perceive the mysteries and the miracles and paradoxes of life, but we cannot truly understand or know anything. we can only be more or less wise to them.

note also that men don't make things happen - the only things that happen are what God allows to manifest. this means that everything good that ever happened in your life, God allowed it. everything bad that ever happened in your life, God allowed that too. because you're the essence of God in a meat suit, there's no hurt that cannot be healed, no separation that cannot be made whole, no loss that cannot be transformed into a win.

life is happening for you and not to you. life is coming from you and not at you. if it's from God, consider it a gift. so what's in the present? what is it telling you? how is it lighting the path back to yourself? God allows and man creates the reason for it, the meaning; that's how man completes creation.

"fate" is a passive abstraction; "meant to be" is incomplete. try "alchemy." turning lead into gold is alchemy; it's transmuting pain into power.