Day Thirty-Four: Vision

Word of the Day: Vision

Image of the Day: clouds in blue sky

Token of the Day: heart ornament bearing the inscription Prayer Changes Things

Gail writes: 20/20; insight, understanding, mission, clarity, prophesy, insight into the future, hope, knowledge. It seemed like a small word yet many meanings - vision - knowing - seeing; what to settle on, to hold, turn over, consider on this occasion today?


Well i've had insight and light, now vision! I think about visions and hallucinations, "Be Thou My Vision", a vision of loveliness...

One of the gurus of the business world, Joel A Barker has a number of helpful things to say about vision, including:

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

And a Japanese proverb says a similar thing, which i guess is where he, consciously or unconsciously, got his idea:

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Vision straight after Light
but aren't most visions at night?
If the inner light is bright
no darkness can cover the eyes of the soul
they will see visions
and show me dreams
in stills and in movies,
in black-and-white or colour

A light is switched on
my world is enriched
with mystical sightings
words of insight and hope.

What vision is this?
Cotton-wool or rain-holders
suspended from Heaven,
platforms for angels
day-beds for cherubs
- there is magic in clouds, skies and rainbows
they are visions of loveliness
God's artistic splendour.

Vision is the sense or ability of sight; it is something (imaginary?) one (thinks one) sees - a mirage?; it is an ideal or a goal towards which one aspires; a religious or mystical experience; it is a person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

~Vision, insight, light
imaginary, mystical, unreal, true
a mirage that deceives or
a sight that enlightens
without vision i cannot see
but the blindness is not of the eyes
rather it is of the heart and of the soul.

Visions are things that visionaries see/receive. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation selected seven people as their visionaries for a just and peaceful world http://www.jrct-visionaries.org.uk/. People with vision are perceptive, insightful and truth-seers and seekers.

Vision is the result of the risk we take when we stop looking for the answers and start seeing the questions...