Decisions! Decisions! Decisions! Life seems to be one long succession of decisions -

• some of them of small significance that could go either way without upsetting anything;

• others of a knotty nature that defy a simple choice and may well be life-changing in their consequence;

• some of no more hurt than being left outside the candy store, looking in;

• others that can mean the difference between poverty or wealth, disease or health, death or life, years of disillusionment and despair, or years of joy and fulfillment.

Sometimes we have to struggle for a right decision, fight through long night watches weighing all the angles, wondering what to do, which way to turn, what choice to make. And just as frequently as not, once through the valley of decision, we look back in anger and regret.…