W.R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, wrote, “Has the time come to move on? Then, break up camp with a good heart. It is only one stage on the journey home.”
These words have guided me in the past when decisions were looming. But more than that, they have encouraged me as I remember that God seems to have created life to be lived in stages. We are the ones who try to make one stage feel like the whole. I have discovered that the courage to “move on” (while difficult at the time) actually leads to things which could not have been experienced if I had stayed in the previous stage.
Oboedire 
Thanks for that thought. I have just moved to a new stage and it is painful, but working on not questioning it and looking forward to the growth from it. It was very helpful to have the many stages articulated as movement on the journey.