Growing a Vision

A vision can begin with a picture out of a magazine- the family you really want; the house of your dreams. A vision can come from a conversation-an idea for new career. It can begin with a television show- someone you admire and want to be like; a debt free life and financial freedom. A vision can also be birthed out of desperation- a desire for something to be different; health for a family member or peace for a loved one. A vision can come from that person that got on your last nerve or the thing that is making you loose your mind.

A vision is like a seed and always begins as a small thing, a thought or a single word or feeling....but if provided the right conditions, if nurtured over time, if protected from doubt and resignation and hopelessness, a vision will draw upon the invisible elements of earth, sun and wind and like any other seed, unfurl itself towards heaven.

But first, if nurtured by faith- a clear intention and steadfast resolve-, a vision will push down roots. Given time and attention those flimsy tiny roots will grow even deeper in the dark stillness of a quiet mind. When watered with with prayer and meditation the roots will grow stronger moving around stones of unbelief or even through impenetrable rocks of fear.

Eventually, the roots of a seedling vision enable a breakthrough in the soil of circumstances. No matter if the soil is cluttered with the dead and the rotting. The living shoot will prove that no vision is ever wasted.  Even a former vision that was abandoned in the past and thought long dead has something to contribute. For in the growing of visions, there is no past. What appears dead and rotting serves as compost, providing softness and warmth for the new and the now.

Inevitably, a vision will manifest.

It is my custom during the first week of each new year to create a vision board. I place on it photographs and images of things I desire in my life. I have learned over the years, as houses and jobs and finances would manifest and as relationships were healed and bad habits gave way that what every single change in my life required attention to the "inner work" of growing a vision.

Sacred and Fit 102 will begin January 9 and it just so happens that my church will begin a 21 day fast on the same day. I have decided to bring my fasting intention to the Sacred and Fit 102 Lessons and will be on a Gradual Fast up to and including the S&F fasting week #5. I have big visions for 2011, and you are an integral part of my vision. In fact, the success of your vision is MY vision.

Before we begin on January 9, take time to think about what you are envisioning for 2011. It is now time to take the photos and images you collected during Sacred and Fit 101 and take them out of the notebook and onto a Vision Board where you can see them and affirm them every day.

While a vision can begin with a picture from a magazine, the picture is only the beginning. The growing of the vision is the inner work and now is the perfect time to begin or to begin again.