Beyond the (really cute) Vision Board
I created a really cute vision board a few years ago that I never filled in with a vision. I was happy enough just to have thought of a creative and cool way to display it that my actual vision didn’t matter. Which proves my love of aesthetics.
I made my first vision board as a vintage pair of boxy glasses frames created with oak tag paper. I painted the frames gold and dangled an old chain from them to act as an old school glasses chain. (The glasses chain was inspired by a friend who at the time had a glasses chain that I thought it was cool.)
Earlier this month I revamped the gold glasses frame vision board. This time I got pretty gold paper to create the boxy frames with, dropped the chain and backed the frames on top of black chalkboard paper. ‘Cause who doesn’t like to use chalk?
So I am back to dreaming. My goal this month is to fill my vision board with dreams unlimited. Of course, adding to this board will be continuous. I have a bunch of cutouts of some of my future plans, motivational habit breaking tools, and quotes to keep inspired. The month is almost over and I have yet to post a thing on the board! I admit I am a little hesitant. It is as if posting on the vision board makes all these things final.
I read something yesterday that shuffled my thoughts a bit and put me back in proper perspective. A girl that I went to college with wrote a FB post on her 25th birthday (3 years ago) of plans that she had when she was younger and how God replaced all those plans with a purpose and vision ten times better. She wrote,
I am so happy God doesn’t take direction from me! His plan is perfect holy, blameless. A plan with a purpose greater than we know
My friend is now the founder of One Life to Love. Her organization is dedicated to loving the unloved children of India. She provides and food and shelter to abandoned children in India. That vision was one beyond her original plans of “being married, with four kids and succeeding in a career” by age 25. At the time she was single and now she’s engaged to a man that I can imagine is just as selfless as her self.
As I start to post these things on my vision board I pray that God guides me to live a life that is beyond whatever it is I put on my vision board.
If God is in control I know that even my dreams deferred, the ones that dried up like raisins in the sun, can make for delicious oatmeal raisin cookies or something. And if instead they explode, all glitter like up and down NYC, that might be even better. We shall see :)
The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps. Proverbs16:9
Check out Courtney Deacon & One Life To Love. Find out ways to love the unloved.
