It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney
I love my job for the most part but as a colleague wrote in an email today, “Our jobs of travel suck in the winter time! “ I headed out on the highway this morning and when I passed the perimeter, the visibility dropped to near zero in places. Still I drove for a bit before deciding I was insane. It is easy to make decisions when you know what your priorities in life are. The school visit could wait. The risk was not worth it. I switched lanes as I knew an intersection was coming up. I was almost on top of it before I saw it. Then I had to figure out if there was oncoming traffic or not in order to get onto the highway heading back to the city. I saw the faint glimmer of headlights. As I waited to turn, I shook my head. What was I thinking? Why had I come even this far? Even semi trucks were going below the speed limit—that should have been reason enough to turn around. However when I did make the decision, I knew it was the right one and experienced no guilt in making it.
We face decisions daily. Sometimes we can make them quickly; other times we agonize over them. Discernment is a gift. I am grateful for having taken the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius which helps with that process. I have to admit as I look toward that half century mark, I have very few regrets in life. Those that I do have are not decisions that I languish over. For that I am especially grateful. I don’t know how many of us can say this but there is not a whole lot of things I would do differently in life if given the chance.
Peace,
Suzanne
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