On "Vision"

Hang out around churches for even an hour or so, and somebody will bounce around the word "vision." It's a hot topic buzz word. I ran across these thoughts on vision, and they've pushed me to slow down a bit and realize what it really is that I - and all of us in churchdom - are saying when we toss out our $0.02 on vision.

Consider . . .

“To the person who does not know where he wants to
go, there is no favorable wind.”
~ Seneca

“All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to
find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they
may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”
~ T.E. Lawrence

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but
has no vision.”
~ Hellen Keller

“Keep yourself clean and bright; you are
the window through which you must see the world.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust