Decisions...

Once someone told me that it was amazing how I could look at a situation and see all of the possible outcomes. In mere seconds I can come up with a list of reasons that things should go one way or another. Now maybe you are the kind of person that sees things one way, and you wish that you could see all of the outcomes before it happens. Maybe you only see the outcomes that have happened in your past experience. Maybe you are in the same boat as me and you can see things from every angle. Any way that you see it, I want you to understand one thing... I am really really really bad at making decisions.

I don't want to complain because that's just lame. But I do want to explore the reasons why I am so bad at making decisions. It could be many things:

I could be afraid to commit.

I could be completely unbiased to everything in life.

I could be completely content with many of the different outcomes that I see.

I could be afraid of everything.

I could be... 

You get it. It could be many things that cause me to not be able to make up my mind. But as I sit here and think of all of these excuses, I realize that I just have to deal with it. I have to find some way to make things happen and do it in a way that is healthy. Some ways that I tend to fall back on are:

Flip a coin.

Make someone else choose.

The handy dandy pro/con list.

Call my mommy and beg her to make it.

Dwell and think until I choose one way or the other or at least drive myself crazy.

Okay, so maybe some of those aren't too healthy. But I'm going to be honest and tell you that they are the ones I use. I need to work to do something. I need to work to add God into that list. The list above reflects things that Katie chooses. Things that I want. Not the things that God has planned for me. But you know what, that scares me. It scares me because I have to place my trust in someone else. 

I challenge you (and myself obviously) to choose to put God at the top of that list, let him be your consultant. Because you know what will probably happen, I won't need any of the rest of those methods, once I choose to let go, and let God.