I’ve been participating in a five day (Instagram) writing challenged sponsored by Hope Writers. A word prompt was provided for each day.  Today’s word is VISION.

If you look up the word vision in the dictionary, you will find several different meanings.  Vision can be defined as the faculty of eyesight.  It can also mean the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination and wisdom. Even still, vision could be an experience like seeing someone in a dream or a mental image of the future.

In today’s culture, when we hear the word vision, we think about generating a picture in our minds of what we want and then using it to guide our steps.

OMG that sounds so simple…except in real life, our glasses become foggy and vision is sometimes hard to see.

I don’t know about you, but I can usually tell you what I don’t want before I can tell you what I really want.

Why is that?

Perhaps it is because we make vision too complicated.

Whenever I organize kitchen pantries, I always ask my clients what their “vision” is for their panty.  Almost every client has a vision of a beautiful white pantry with mocha colored baskets for snacks and labeled clear containers for pasta, rice, flour, etc.

I LOVE the images of the perfect pantries I see online.  Most times, everything has been taken out of the original containers and put into sleek clear containers with fancy labels!  Yassssss.

But before I dispense my client’s  “Declutter Prescription” and  help them tackle their space, I must ask a few questions (as their friendly Pharmacist of course).

Is your life set up to include weekly restocks?

Do you store things in your pantry that are not necessarily pantry items but will need to stay in the pantry due to limited storage space?

How do you think your family will navigate and maintain the new pantry?

Would an organized and functional pantry be enough?

I’m learning, the power of vision is having faith (that with God) we will prevail while also facing the brutal facts of our current reality.

Sometimes simple is just fine, at other times “extraness” is necessary to take the project to the next level.

Vision with lasting results knows the difference.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

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