{"id":995,"date":"2005-10-18T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/chasing_destiny\/"},"modified":"2005-10-18T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T09:58:00","slug":"chasing_destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/chasing_destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Destiny or Chasing Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about the perils of chasing success, but I want to give you another &quot;cure&quot; for this epidemic.&nbsp; I use such strong language because people are only experiencing half (or less) of what they were meant to.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>First, it begins with knowing the Designer of the design (you).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Every human being is given a destiny&#8230;a unique destiny to be fully manifested in a lifetime.&nbsp; Success is a by-product of this destiny.&nbsp; It also produces a peace in the midst of great success.&nbsp; There are many in America who are successful, but not many carry a peace with that success.&nbsp; I think you&#8217;d agree that many are very dissatisfied and unhappy. Have you ever noticed that those chasing success never seem to catch it?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>When your destiny catches you, then success will pursue you.&nbsp; Counter-intuitive?&nbsp; Absolutely, but a truth I&#8217;ve experienced personally over and over again.&nbsp; When you think about God&#8217;s power and creativity, you start to see the &quot;magic.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about the perils of chasing success, but I want to give you another &quot;cure&quot; for this epidemic.&nbsp; I use such strong language because people are only experiencing half (or less) of what they were meant to.&nbsp; First, it begins with knowing the Designer of the design (you).&nbsp; Every human being is given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}