I have turned this decision over from every possible angle and I still have no clarity. I keep running the same loop and it is exhausting. How do I stop analysing and act?

“LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.”

This is one of the shortest psalms, a pilgrim song sung on the road to Jerusalem. David says he has stopped exercising himself in matters too great for him, and describes his soul as a weaned child against its mother. The image is deliberate: a weaned child is no longer frantic for what it wants. Quieting the mind here is presented as something learned over time, not a personality trait some are born with.

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”

James writes to scattered believers making hard practical decisions without an obvious right answer. His instruction is almost startlingly plain: if you lack wisdom, ask for it, and it will be given without God finding the question tiresome. Note what he does not promise, which is certainty in advance. The promise is wisdom given to people who ask and then move, rather than clarity handed to people still standing still.