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Decisions...Decisions...

Decision-making, of the momentous, life-changing sort, has always  been a lengthy and even painful process for me. l agonize and pray  and try to discern how my heart is being led...usually I seek out the  counsel of friends I trust, as well as perusing words of wisdom from  favorite writers, biblical and otherwise. And- eventually- the way  seems clear...the answer seeming to arise from my very depths... an inner voice of sorts affirming my decision. Now this not to say I have not made some colossal mistakes over  the years. But even those "mistakes", it seems, have been the  source of learning and growth (once I get past the consternation at being wrong, of course.) But seldom have I been faced with a  decision with as much potential for both pain and pleasure or as fraught with emotion as the one with which I have been wrestling for the past several months: whether or not to sell my house and move into an apartment...to downsize ...