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Develop A Vision

How do you develop a vision? Think about how you would like your life to be. Make it practical. This is how you bring heaven down to earth, which means to make the abstract practical, and that is always very useful.

What do you want? You can ask yourself that. If you could have what you want, what would that be? We could throw out some possibilities: People trust you, people respect you, and you deserve the trust and the respect. People can rely on you. You are good for yourself, and you are good for other people. There is productive, generous peace that reigns around you. If you can think of something better, pursue that. But this is a good start.

To move past the abstract, you have to consider how you might conduct yourself in order for that to occur. One way of approaching moving past the abstract is to differentiate. If I ask what the purpose of your life is, that is a pretty abstract question so I would probably get a pretty general answer. You could answer by saying your purpose is to be willing to adopt the spirit of challenge in relationship to life's vicissitudes. Yet that is still pretty abstract because how would you go about doing that? You have to differentiate it. That is the bringing of the divine message down into the realm of practical applicability. How do you make that principle real in your own life?

One way of making it practical and real is by identifying where you find significance in your life. Then you can envision participating in this process.