Clear your mind.  You are going to have a vision.

Find a time and place where you can relax.  Perhaps close your eyes if it helps.

Please envision your best life.  Notice what you see, hear, smell, move, who you know, etc.  For many of you, you won't have to make up a thing.  The vision will be something you already know, that has been built up beginning in your youth.  You can start jotting down notes of as many things as you can acknowledge.

The vision I have for my life is a sacred thing.  I have rarely shared it with others, and then only parts of it.  I am convinced that my Father in heaven has led me, and created me and the pattern of my life, for me to be a certain kind of person with a certain kind of purpose.  (This would be equally true for each of you.)  As my vision presented itself to me, even before I left the home of my mother and father, I chose not to fear.  This vision is the fire inside me, along with my love of Jesus Christ, that literally keeps me alive on a daily basis.  As well, it is a burden in the sense that my soul can never rest from my vision.

A very important thing about your vision is that it is NOT A GOAL(S) and it IS NOT in the future.  Visions are always, and they unfold to greater and greater clarity and reality.  Any time I feel free to manifest any part or parts of my vision into the present (by means of a goal or another means), then I have been true.

You may have some things that are not exactly right about your vision or not right about how to fulfill it.  I speak with the Lord about it and I have often been taught about the right ways to unfold my vision in to reality.  But my vision has never been taken away.  In fact, I have been made to feel that if I were to reject this vision, I would be making a serious mistake, much like the gentleman who went to bury his talent.

In my life I feel that I am constantly wading through the mortal world (wait a minute, did I say wading?  I meant sledge hammering brick walls!) to get to my best life and my vision.  Everything I consciously choose to do is an effort to get me closer to the fruit of my vision.  I am not capable of anything else when I give it any sort of thought.  BUT my weaknesses always come in on the sly; plus I have to deal with the larger world systems that have been created by men and devils.  So I wear out shovels digging through a lot of mortal manure (moving mountains!) to get to the treasure of my vision.

At the same time, I make sure that I have the attitude that I am already enjoying my best life and my vision.  I want to enjoy the present and what has been given to me instead of constantly reaching based on "lack".

Pretty much the attitude I have in my life is "How am I going to disintegrate this worldly circumstance (=personal weakness), so that the only thing left is glory?"  The first thing on my list is to always go to the Lord.  "I'll bet You can do something about this!"   Then I get to prepare myself for chastening ( = use as the Lord's instrument), because the only thing that is between the Savior and my best life ARE my weaknesses.  When they are gone, the vision is revealed in the physical world.  The world as itself can offer no real obstacles.

[I wrote this in 2001.]

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