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Soul's Curriculum

By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual WarriorPublished about 5 hours ago 1 min read

The Soul’s Curriculum

Destiny is not a map etched in stone,

nor a prophecy carved into the sky.

It is the quiet unfolding of what the soul already knows,

the gentle return to what it came here to remember.

We walk thinking we choose at random,

turning left, turning right,

believing chance is the author of our days.

But beneath every step is a deeper rhythm,

a pulse older than time,

guiding us toward the lessons we agreed to learn

long before we had a name.

Our destiny is not imposed from above.

It rises from within—

from the echoes of lifetimes,

from the threads we left unfinished,

from the promises we made to ourselves

in the soft light between incarnations.

Every joy is a teacher.

Every sorrow is a doorway.

Every encounter is a mirror.

Every challenge is a page in the curriculum

written by the soul with patience and precision.

We are not here to pass or fail.

We are here to remember.

To awaken.

To grow into the fullness of who we already are.

Destiny is simply the soul’s syllabus—

the long arc of becoming,

the spiral of learning,

the return to our own eternal truth.

And when we finally understand this,

when we stop resisting the lessons

and begin to walk with them,

we discover that destiny was never a path we had to find.

It was the path we were already on—

the one our soul chose

with love,

with intention,

with infinite wisdom

before we ever arrived.

inspirational

About the Creator

Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior

Thank you for reading my work. Feel free to contact me with your thoughts or if you want to chat. [email protected]

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