My favorite quote from a great piece by Kirsten Sanders about Christianity and the nature of everyday life:

Discernment doesn’t mean that you are responsible for the result of your own choices. It means that at the end of your life, your choices tell a story.

The whole piece is Frederick Buechner-level good, but that quote has a nice turn to it, a turn that happens in the second sentence.

Every choice we make, good and bad, tells a story.  A story that isn’t finished yet, for sure.  But a story in the making nonetheless.  The results are often beyond us, if not immediately then ultimately.  And that’s okay.  “Not even the wisest can see all ends,” Gandalf once said.  But God knows, just as He knows our hearts, and there is great comfort in that.