Vision Board: Can it Become Your Reality

I never created a vision board in my life until 2 years ago. I followed the Holy Spirits leading to begin to create an image of what I desired my life to look like. At the time, my life was the faintest reality of anything beautiful, but it was worth enduring. However, during the course of those trying moments in times all I could feel was pain.

Every day came with its own issues and the peaceful and loving relationship I thought I had slowly faded into something so unfamiliar and unappealing. Before I go any deeper; too quickly into my personal affairs, let me get back to my vision board experience.  

I awoke one morning with the thought impressed upon my heart that this vision board had to be made. The title, image, every aspect of this vision board sired my psyche. It had to be done and I completed it the same morning. 

I entitled it 'First Comes Love' and even as I am writing this I did have to take a glance to refresh my memory of this title. Like I said it was given to me by the Holy Spirit. The things that the Holy Spirit will give to you will be ingrained in your memory as if He had written it on the walls of your heart.

The vision board was a reflection of what my life was not. Every instruction received regarding this visual creation was synchronized by the Holy Spirit Himself. I remembered a pastor, The Eclectic Preacher on Spotify from a church I attended, recently started creating podcasts. I stumble upon one episode called "Write the Vision" the very morning. She gave instructions on how to create a vision board. She stated three things that formed the backbone of what I was about to create. She mentioned that my vision boarded needed to reflect "what I wanted to be, do, and have." 

I crafted the perfect vision for my life at the time, of what I wanted to "be," "do," and "have," though it was not a reflection of my life at the time. There had been chaos, pain, abuse, disrespect, and the inseparable and insatiable passions quickly turned it into an intoxicating reality that wounded the very core of my being.

I wrote the vision, praying that it would soon become my reality. Moreover, there was not the slightest evidence of things becoming better. I was believing with all my heart, as my soul was slowly dying inside. I fasted and prayed, and fasted some more. Daniel fast, Ester fast, 40 days fast, you name it, I did it. My outcome... the burden of stress, anger, and utter resentment.

2020, I created the vision board, and one year later at the end of my strength, I burned the vision board. I expound on 'my' because I was trying to achieve the vision in my strength. I did not literally burn the vision board, I took it off of my wall and put it out of sight where I could no longer see it. I was done, I had given up on the vision board, and angrier that the vision board got my hopes up. In the end, I lost. I told myself vision boards don't work. I was so hurt, despondent and dejected at such a brut outcome. Under mentorship, the group was prompted to create a vision board, and I was not motivated. My bitter outcome showed at the time, "those things don't work." The vision board that is.

Let me shorten this story for you before it exceeds my word limit because I am not certain if there is one. I did not create the new board but used the one I had previously created. I spoke about my vision and dreams with dreaded tears in my eyes, a bleeding heart, and a distraught soul. Hope deferred certainly made my heart sick and boy was it sick.

Five months later, now 2021, I fasted, prayed, was prayed for, received prophecies. God stepped in and spoke to me, and dealt with me in a way He had never dealt with me before. My ears were itching, I sought help in all the unrequired places, and the activation of my vision was delayed, not denied. as a result of my misplaced hope. Was I truly trusting God to accelerate the vision He placed in me? I could not have created that vision board if He hadn't given it to me in the first place.

 Trust is a critical commodity when it comes to dealing with God. He cannot work in your life with a heart that can't trust him. Whole-hearted trust is what will cause the vision to unfold and become the reality you will enjoy in the land of the living. God's promises are true, they are yes, and they are sealed. He wants us to get rid of the dependency and trust in the words of men and put complete trust in his word. If God said it; He will do it. This is not a cliche; it is called clinging to the very word which the God who created Heaven and the earth by His spoken word. Again by His spoken word, He will accomplish His will, purpose, and His vision for your life. The story doesn't have to end because emotions tell you all is lost. The story is just beginning because the author, God is still writing your story.

Today, I am watching my vision board come alive and speak for my life and for my generation to come. God is the one who places the vision in you and will cause it to come to fruition and completeness in your life.

Go ahead write your vision and make it plain and trust God to establish every detail.

All Glory be to God