Article September 24, 1927 Issue

Making Decisions

MARGARETTE ROOT ZAHLER

To some people the making of decisions is a difficult task. Why it is so may be due to a number of causes. Looked at from a material point of view, a decision usually involves a giving up of one thing and a retaining of something else. In other words, it is a sort of coming to the "parting of the ways," when one can no longer continue as before, but must choose either one path or another.

Often our days seems filled with confusion because of a constant pulling in opposite directions when we are called upon to make decisions, though ever so small. Shall I do this, or that? Shall I go here, or there? are questions constantly confronting us. There are other times when very important decisions, involving far-reaching consequences, have to be made, which may mean the changing of the whole course of one's life, bringing in their trail entirely different lines of activity: What profession shall I follow? Which business shall I enter? Where shall I make my home?

Although loving friends or experts in given lines may give gratuitous advice, which in some cases may be of value as needed information, only God is a perfectly safe guide. Men may not know what God has in store for His children. God's ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts. Even the best-intentioned human advice cannot be a substitute for God's infinite plan.

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