Hello my friend. Long time it's been! Glad to see you still out there somewhere livin' life to the fullest as you do! Yes, I too believe in "we are the masters of our circumstances." It's like the person who knows that smoking will one day kill them but chooses to continue to chain smoke each and every day when alternatives exist. Choices/actions define us and what we focus on creates our realities IMO. I believe the power above you that you speak of is what I call the source of it all, better yet the "ALL." I believe that you are but a mere piece or spec of this source as is everything in the universe and beyond here such as a blade of grass is also in the field experiencing experiences for the source as is the human within life. I don't believe individual source life is laid out in some book somewhere predetermined but rather unknown and developed day by day through choices and circumstances within the reality we exist in. Interesting huh, as the ALL wants to experience even though it is all knowing. Everything from the smallest microscopic thing to the largest object known and unknown is an individual spec and part of the source experiencing creation making it's way back to the source eventually one day to become whole once again. In essence we are all alone or individual but yet we are all one and the same at the same time.............