Have A Vision

Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keeps the law, happy is he. (Proverbs 29:18)

There is something about hesitation and reconsiderations that is curiously fatal to successful achievement. Good fortune is in going on ~ not in going back. The parable of Lot's wife (Genesis 19:26), who turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back, is by no means inapplicable to the life today. Let no one who the vision has shone look backward instead of forward, and he become paralyzed and immovable. He is impeded by the shallows and the miseries. He has withdrawn himself from all the heavenly forces that lead him on. This fidelity to the vision is the vital motor. It gives that exhilaration of energy which makes possible the impossible.

Each recurring New Year is an open door. However arbitrary are the divisions of time, there is inspiration and exaltation in standing on the threshold of an untried year, with it's fresh pages awaiting record. It is, again, the era of possibilities. The imaginative faculty of the soul must, indeed, be "fed with objects immense and eternal." Life stretches before one in its diviner unity ~ even in the wholeness of the life that is and that which is to come.

There is no one set of motives and purposes to be applied to this life, and another set to that which awaits us. This is the spiritual world, here and now. It is well to drop the old that one may seize the new.

What vision do you have for your, your family, your business, your life this 2010?