"Let’s Begin Anew"
by Rev. Christine 1/19/03Today we are continuing the process in setting the energy for our new year. Last week was revealing to us what we accomplished in spiritual growth and goals. This week is the process of visioning in laying the foundation for our continued growth.
A passage in Proverbs says "Where there is no vision, the people will perish." People who have no vision for their life are sleepwalking without a hint as to why they are here or what their purpose is. They are the average person who live out the collective beliefs of society and seem to be at the whim of forces outside themselves.
But as spiritual beings made in the image and likeness of pure Spirit, we are so much more than that. Each of us is a composite spiritual idea containing every idea that infinite Mind has ever thought. When we begin to understand our purpose for being here, which is to be a revealer of love, then we can start to open ourselves up to God’s vision for us and to discover our own unique way to deliver that love, through our individual gifts and talents we can express that love.
Our purpose for being on the planet is simply to be an emanation or an expression of love. We’re here to love – to perfect, amplify, and express the unconditional divine love of God. That’s our purpose. God’s vision for our life is the means or manner by which we bring forth that love. It’s our heart’s desire, our own unique way of expressing the love. Whether that vision involves being a doctor, healer, teacher or whatever, it is the way we fulfill our purpose of expressing love.
We’re multidimensional, multifaceted beings, and there are many ways in which we express love, but each of us has a primary vision to catch or open up to, and that is the particular delivery system which enables us to serve our purpose of revealing love.
As we open to the vision God has for our life and begin to live it we become less and less influenced by the popular or entrenched beliefs of a particular society or culture, and we become much more available to Spirit. We become inspired by the ideas held in the mind of God, and they begin to live and express through us. We begin to be able to articulate them and to live and embody and reveal them. The feeling we have is that we have come home. We are fulfilling our heart’s desire, which is the same thing.
I believe that God’s will for us is for the greater expression of life, of beauty, of everything that God is. Our heart’s desire is generally about expressing ourselves, allwoing our latent talents, gifts, and abilities to become actualized. When we express God’s vision for our life, we feel fulfilled.
Visualization is a beginning phase in metaphysics in which we mentally conceive something we want. We imagine doing it or having it and we generate the feelings that would accompnay the experience. Visualization involves having an idea of what we want to accomplish or how we want to live our life, then imaging that goal as already achieved and establishing the necessary mental and emotional vibrations to bring it forth and manifest it. Visualization is a beautiful and wonderful stage in our evolution, and it’s very important.
When we do vision, on the other hand, we align in consciousness with our divine purpose, which is to love and to express a greater degree of life. Then we open ourselves to catch a sense of how that expression is supposed to occur through us.
Visioning always beings with a deep sense that we’re surrounded by unconditional love. We enter into the conscious awareness that we live, move, and have our being in this unconditional love, and we open ourselves up to what that love feels like. I don’t mean just emotionally, though. The feeling tone we develop is of a spiritual nature, and this feeling is the whole foundation of visioning.
We then declare what it is we are doing the visioning about. For example, we may ask, "How does God see Itself as my life?" We then wait to inwardly hear, see, and catch what comes to us, what it looks like, what it feels and sounds like, and we pay close attention to any symbols or metaphors that appear. All of this is done without judgment.
We are throwing ourselves open to whatever comes up and we notice what begins to flow through so we can articulate it, write it down, express it, dialogue about it, and be aware of how it feels, not just emotionally but spiritually. In this way we can begin to articulate God’s vision for our life.
Willingness to make necessary changes is an important factor in the success of the visioning process. Once we begin to be able to get God’s vision for our life, and are feeling and sensing it, we ask the question: "What is it that I have to embody or become in order for this vision to manifest?" As we listen inwardly in a meditative state, we begin to hear from the deep levels of our being what we have to know, what we have to become, whate we have to embody and change. Then we write it down and dialogue about it.
We know metaphysically that we cannot have anything we are not willing to become. It’s an impossibility for us to have something in our life that is not aligned with our consciousness. So we begin to get a picture of how we need to develop and grow and unfold, of how we must change. Then we are ready to go on to the next state, which is affirmative prayer.
We pray affirmatively not about how to accomplish the vision but rather about the ways in which we need to grow. What qualities do we need to embody, what things do we need to know, what do we need to change in your life, and how do we need to unfold spiritually in order to bring forth the vision?
So no matter what the visioning process focuses on, spiritual transformation of the individual using it is the ultimate result. Visioning is always for self-transformation. It’s always to shift our perception of reality. And this process goes on forever. We never reach a place where the process is complete, because God’s idea is infinite and it’s always expressing. We just become bigger and bigger places for it to express through.
The prayer work that is part of visioning allows for the invisible spiritual idea to be made visible through and as our very self. We literally become it, and make it visible.
Whoever uses the visioning process in this way lifts us all, because it is a technique that allows us to realize we’re at one with God, at one with the love that is everywhere. There are only divine ideas in the universe, whole, perfect, complete ideas.
All we have to do is be receptive to these ideas, and then to expand our willingness to be at one with them, releasing anything within us that prevents them from expressing through us. When we align ourselves with divine ideas of joy, harmony, love, and iwsdom, they uniquely express through us. The visioning process allows God to reveal Itself through us in infinite ways. We become a living embodiment of God’s ideas if we let God work through us. It’s our reason for being here.
Meditation: It is time for us to begin. Let us get comfortable. Stretch, breath. Clear our mind completely – be an open slate. Now begin to feel love, the presence of unconditional love, and this love is us. I am the vibrational tone of love.
When ready ask the question, "How does God see Itself as my life?" Wait to inwardly hear, and catch what comes to us. Can you see what your life is like in 12 months, 6 months, 3 months. We are open to whatever comes up without judgement. When ready put it down on paper in words and/or symbols.
Once we get God’s vision for our life, and are feeling and sensing it, we ask the question: "What is it that I have to embody or become in order for this vision to manifest?" We continue to listen inwardly, and write down what comes.
Pay attention of any conflicting feelings or fear. When ready begin with step 4. Writing what we call creative denials for each one, and follow each one with an affirmative statement.
Next week we will have a healing service to unfold and strengthen in our life.
Visioning 2003
1/19/03
1. Meditate, clear the mind of all preconceived ideas, become one with the presence of God, with the presence of Love.
2. Now ask while still in the silence, "How does God see Itself as my life?"
Write, draw symbols, or picture on backside.
3. Ask "What is it that I have to embody or become in order for this vision to manifest?
4. List non-supporting feelings or beliefs that come up for you, and then write a statement of truth that nullifies "creative denial", example: Limitation – There is no truth in limitation. Follow with an affirmative statement, example: God is infinite therefore I am unlimited.