A prayer before an important decision

Master of the World, I need to decide, and I do not know what is right. Two paths lie before me, and each has good things and risk. I wrote lists, I asked, I thought, and still my mind goes around the same circle.

Give me clarity. Help me tell apart what I truly want from what others expect of me, and what is right from what only frightens me less.

Send me wise people who will listen to me without pushing me in their direction, and let me hear also what is unpleasant for me to hear.

Let me also listen to myself. Notice the calm or the unease I feel when I imagine each of the paths, and not dismiss what my heart says only because it does not fit on the list.

Keep me from putting off the decision until time decides in my place. And keep me also from deciding in a panic, only so that the pressure ends.

And if the decision affects my family too, let me truly include them, and not present them with a done deal.

And when I decide, let me walk the path I chose with a whole heart, without looking back every day. And if it turns out that I was wrong, let me know that one can build even from a mistake, and that You are with me also on the path I did not plan.

And let me make the decision out of calm and not out of fear, and rejoice in the freedom You gave me to choose, for the choice itself is also a gift from You.