"The mind of a person plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps."  Don't we all wonder about what, at a given point in time, we should do?  Don't we all face having to make significant decisions?
     Of course.  In the passage from the sixteenth chapter of Proverbs, we see one piece of advice for responding to the dilemma of a difficult decision.  Yet does not this seem incredibly binding?  Regardless of what we purpose to do, God ultimately decides what will happen.  Aren't we sufficiently rational to make our own decisions?
     We certainly are.  That's how God made us:  rational beings.  True rationality, however, involves more than thinking in terms of materiality alone.  A full picture of rationality means understanding that we live our material lives in the umbra of a transcendent and spiritual experience and presence.  Though we are physical beings, we all experience things exceeding physicality.  Life is an open door.
     Do we need divine guidance?  It's not so much a question about what we need as it is an acknowledgement that we cannot live in full awareness of reality without it.
     Happy decision making.