Living Without Vision

It's more difficult than you think to write a new chapter in your story. It's not just putting words down on paper or typing them in a blog. Writing a new chapter takes time and you can only write one page each day. Plus I have to realize that I'm only a co-author in this story... God is writing the other half. In fact he has already written his half... I know that I must seek him to complete this chapter.

I had lunch with my neighbor today. My neighbor is wonderful and has a wonderful heart...so genuine. I felt disheartened that I couldn't fully express the things on my heart today. We are always so afraid of being judged by others that we dance around the issues. I wanted to express to my neighbor my need to reconnect with God on a deeper spiritual level. I wanted to say that this person I had become was not the person that God intended me to be. I wanted to say that I was searching for my VISION. But I didn't really feel like I could convey those things. She just listened...which is often what we are all looking for...someone to listen to us...someone to hear us.

Where there is no vision that you were created to have a growing, lifelong, and personal relationship with your Creator, your inner being withers and dies.

Where there is no vision that you have been placed on earth to matter deeply to other people, and reveal God's love and power to htem, you live in loneliness and your relationships perish.

I'm ready to find this vision. I'm ready to bring new life to my inner being. I'm ready to recognize the person that I've been staring at in the mirror.

I've started to write this chapter many times before... and always left it incomplete. I'm picking up where I left off...the good news is that my co-author... He's still around and always will be!