Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

A series of emails from my sisters sparked my reflection of this topic. A conversation with a friend from work, helped me zone in on the reality.


I am the type of person that always seems to have something on my plate. My sister calls them “projects.” When I complete one, she is usually the first to ask, “So what’s your next project?” The other day after work I talked to a friend and she mentioned that I always have “something going on.” Today, as my sisters and I carried on our daily communications, we began to talk about having a vision and how important it is to write down the visions we have for our lives, our family and our future. That’s when I realized that I have always been in the habit of jotting down my personal “To Do List” of things I would like to focus on. If I feel like it’s something that I want to work on, I write it down.

Career…social…travel…personal…anything.


The more I thought about it, I began to see that by writing down my visions, I also entered into a contract with myself and with God.

Proverbs 23:7 states "for as he thinks within himself, so he is." Therefore, if you think or see yourself going back to school, then you will. If you see yourself being in a loving relationship, then you will be. If you see your self being a person who characterizes love, then be that person!

Habakkuk 2:2&3
"Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come; it will not tarry."

So write your vision and put it in detail. That way people who are made aware of your vision will have no room to doubt or "hate" on what you have written. The vision is for a specific time. You may map it out this week and it doesn't come to pass until next year. WRITE IT ANYWAY! Just because you don't know WHEN it's going to happen, doesn't mean that it's NOT going to happen!

A VISION DELAYED IS NOT A VISION DENIED!!!

Be Blessed!

Definition of Love (1 Corinthians 13)

1 Corinthians 13
Love


4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

This is what I use to measure any love from anyone. This rubric could be used to eliminate men that we are considering for romantic reasons as well as people who want to get close to us in general.

Love is !!!!
patient: can you be down when things are not the way you think they should be?
kind: are you hurting or helping?

Love is not!!!!
envious: not only do you want what I have, you don't even want me to have it! are we in competition?
boastful: are you trying to shine and make me look less than you?
proud: superiority?
rude: do you value my feelings?
self-seeking: in it for yourself and nobody else?
does not delight in evil: you want to see me fall?

WHAT LOVE DOES!!!
protects: I want you safe!
trusts: I believe in you!
hopes: I want the best for you!!
persevere: I am DOWN with you!!!!

How will you measure up????

Until We Get It Right

Have you ever failed a class? If it’s a required class, what usually happens? You have to take the class again in order to graduate, right?

Well, the same rules apply to life lessons. We experience things in life the same way until we master the lesson God is trying to teach us. We have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. When we change the behavior, we often get the results we originally wanted. That means that we have mastered the lesson and we don’t have to repeat it. We are ready to move on to the next life experience.

Example: You date someone that hurts you. You break up with that person and begin to date someone else. That person hurts you too! The cycle continues until you identify the common thread in each relationship and make an adjustment. We must change a behavior. Perhaps we decide to date a person longer before we jump into the next level of the relationship. Maybe we screen potential mates harder to avoid future heartbreak. What happens when we change the behavior? We don’t end up hurt like before.

What I think is so awesome about God is that at the same time He is trying to teach us something, He is also trying to heal us from those things that we allowed to hurt us in the first place. So not only are we smarter from the lesson, but we are better because of the healing.

Ponder on this….Have you ever broken up with a person that hurt you so badly that could still feel the pain just at the sight of that person, even sometimes long after the break up? Then, after you have “gotten” the lesson and actually heal you can see that same person that hurt you and feel no pain at all? That’s God!

Be Blessed!
Ivy League