You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, as we wrap up our conversation about approaching decision-making with delight,

Dan reminds us that true delight is about so much more than easy, temporary pleasure.

And that saying yes to delight means saying no to momentary gain, with the hope that God created us for something so much deeper.

Over the last several weeks, I've been hoping that our labor together would begin to at least

articulate something of the North Star of Delight as important criteria to be brought to the

process of all decision making.

How do we make decisions?

Well, it requires discernment.

What are the criteria as to how we know this is a wise or unwise path to take?

And in that sense, we've begun talking primarily about the role of delight in how we make decisions.

So in that, I want to come back to the question of, assume that you've been thinking about delight, the role of delight, the role of delight and discernment.

I want to talk particularly about decision making.

And a lot of this came, as I mentioned in our last

broadcast, because I was looking for a book. And the particular book I was looking for came as a

result of a conversation with a dear friend about my writing. And she asked a question. She is a writer herself and has recently published

a phenomenal piece of fiction. And as we were talking, she said, I remember you saying at one

point that you were thinking about writing fiction. And I kind of, I shrugged and I just sort of had that look like, you know, yeah.

Like most writers think maybe there's a piece of fiction within me that I'd like to see play out.

And she asked the simple but kind question, what's kept you from doing it?

And you would have been tiresomely,

tediously bored by my answer. I won't even go through it as much as to say, well, you know,

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