I think this idea can at times be reassuring but I have reservations about it. I think you are a lot more powerful and aware than for which you give yourself credit. I think you engineer a lot more of what happens in your life than you have been led to believe or you may care to admit. You might choose at times to believe that some higher entity is playing an active role but my guess is that you are selling yourself short.
I suspect that if you were to ramp up your recall ability and carefully inspect your past decisions you would find the ones that led you to be exactly where you are right now.
But that is not nearly as important as is learning how to make better decisions so you create the future with which you will be very happy.