If we don’t give ourselves a bit of time and space to consider possibilities, to sit with potential, to let ideas and scenarios play out for a while, then our imagination will just do its knee-jerk thing. We’ll make our decisions not based on our gifting, our values, or what matters most; we’ll just make them to avoid pain, to avoid discomfort, to avoid disappointing others, or sometimes just to get the decision out of the way.
