I have been attending Life Without Limits International Church in Tallahassee, Florida. Our Pastor is Jimmie Baker. There was a church-wide project to create a Vision Board. What is a Vision Board you may ask? Well a Vision Board is where you take a poster-board or other type of medium and create a vision for your life. Members of the church created these boards and had a party to share their Vision Boards with everyone. One of the purposes for doing this was accountability? Accountability to who? Well the vision is that we are all accountable to each other and accountable to God. By creating our vision and sharing it we prompt others to encourage their fellow members to do what is needed to take their vision from the board to reality.
Sadly I came into it late and was not able to take part, but today in service the teen members of the church who create Vision Boards themselves shared their vision for their own life with the congregation. It got me to thinking about my own life and if a teenager can create a vision for their life and commit to it then so should I. When I started to think about what my own Vision Board would look like I realized that I had so many things I wanted to include in my Vision Board that they simply would not fit onto one piece of 22 x 28 piece of poster board. Then a light bulb went off in my mind and I decided instead of creating a Vision Board I would create a Vision Book.
What will my Vision Book include? Anything I want. When will I be done with it? Whenever I feel that I have included everything that I have had a vision for. What is the purpose? To take up the challenge set forth by my Pastor and the church and create a vision for my life that I write down and share with others. Creating a Vision Board or a Vision Book is a monumental task because it requires dedication and self-reflection. It requires a person to look at their own life to see if they are living up to the vision they have set for themselves and that has been set for them by God. Quite simply it requires commitment. I don't know what my Vision Book will look like or how much detail it will hold, but I feel inspired to do what I have been called to do (whatever that may be) and am committed to writing it down. I will share my vision with my family, my friends, and my God. I may even share it with the world. Stay tuned.
