Congratulations, and Happy New Year! If you and I are reading this post, it means that God, through His divine grace and mercy, has allowed us to see a new year. Praise God! Well, in my last post, I talked about closing the chapters in 2019 that were unfruitful and filled with heartache or pain. Hopefully, you have spent some time through self- examination of seeing what changes in your life would benefit you in this new year. With God’s help, we can do all things. Let’s talk about vision now. Vision is the faculty or state of being able to see — the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. Oxford.

At some time in our life, we have experienced an eye examination. There is a chart with letters on it and distances. Depending on how good your vision is, you will be able to read the different lines. A perfect view yields a range of 20/20 vision. We all want to be there, but more often than not, at some point, our vision changes and usually with less visibility. Some are nearsighted, seeing things that are in close range and other people far-sighted seeing things further away and not up close.

Let’s talk about our vision in terms of relationships. Do you have a 20/20 vision where you see things clearly in your relationships? The way things are? Do you know the person within the pure light of who they are? Do you not only see what the person means to you, but also what you signify to the other person? Do you see the struggles, if there are any and the possible causes? Do you see whether the good in the relationship outweighs the bad or the bad outweighs the good? Do you see that your life is better with this individual in it, or was it better before the two of you got together? Do you see that there is more joy in the relationship than happiness because happiness quickly flees when situations change, but joy will remain even through tough times?

I could go on and on, but I invite you to think of questions to ask yourself in terms of your relationships, or if you are not in a relationship ask yourself how do you see yourself in a relationship with someone you may desire to be with or someone you hope to meet soon. In answering those questions, does your vision represent a healthy vision, or do you have cataracts, which causes you not to see as clearly? Sometimes our vision can be cloudy because we desire so sorely to have a good stable relationship with somebody-anybody. Don’t settle, and if you have someone good hold onto that relationship. Honor it, be faithful to it, and, most of all, thank God for it!

As we begin this new year, it’s not about making a lot of resolutions, but it’s about doing what we already know is right. Let’s have a clear vision so we can move forward and experience more joy in our life. If you are still single and not in a relationship, don’t stress over it, petition God for your desires and listen to His voice, and as Paul has stated, be content in the state that we find ourselves.  In due season God will do what He does best. He does all things well. Reading the word of God and following its instruction enhances our vision and leads us on the pathway of perfect 20/20 vision! For the vision is yet for an appointed  time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2: 3. I’ll be back next week with a new post, “In the Beginning!”

Be encouraged, and God bless!

Sister Jackie