THE COST OF INDECISION

Former President Ronald Reagan says he learned the need for decision-making early in life.

An aunt had taken him to a cobbler to have a pair of shoes made for him. The shoemaker asked young Ronald Reagan: “Do you want a square toe or a round toe?”

Reagan hemmed & hawed. So the cobbler said, “Come back in a day or two & let me know what you want.”

A few days later the shoemaker saw Reagan on the street & asked what he had decided about the shoes.

“I still haven’t made up my mind,” the boy answered. “Very well,” said the cobbler.

When Reagan received the shoes, he was shocked to see that one shoe had a square toe & the other a round toe.

“Looking at those shoes every day taught me a lesson,” said Reagan years later. “If you don’t make your own decisions, somebody else will make them for you!”

- Archie B. Lawson (ministry127.com)

Col 3:15 (GNT): “The peace that Christ gives is to guide you in the decisions you make; for it is to this peace that God has called you together in the one body. And be thankful.”

“A father's responsibility is not to make the child's decisions, but to let the child watch him make his.” -  Ed Cole.