The Surprising Power of Patience in Making Life-Changing Decisions

Well, you are a great decision maker.

You know, how do you know when it's time or how do you make big decisions in your life?

Well, that's a leading question.

That's a leading question.

Sometimes the decisions make me.

But things are decided for you.

But when you have

decisions to make,

first of all, I have to start in prayer.

I mean, I can't make a decision unless I think it's part of God's plans for me.

And he has prevented me from making bad decisions through the years.

As well as directed me into making some good decisions, even though I don't always listen to what he says and then I pay for it later.

But when making decisions of any kind, I think it's sort of a feeling that you get.

especially when it's time to move on to something, just a feeling of restlessness, kind of like we talked about the butterfly and the caterpillar and the cocoon.

You know, just things feel a little snug, a little tight, and you just feel like you want to break free.

And then when you do, when you have the strength and the courage to do something significant like that, take a totally different path or make a tough decision, You just do feel almost like that butterfly breaking out of something.

You really do.

You know, I have always been a prayer.

And there's been so many times in my life where I was praying for guidance.

And, you know, it shows up in such different ways.

You know, sometimes I think we pray trying to force a decision.

Right.

We've already decided something.

Now we want affirmation.

Or we are trying to force a decision that I have learned that if it doesn't seem clear, waiting is the right place to