The Heading

Part of my daily regimen is mental visioneering. It has been awhile since I have written a blog about it. Vision clarity is a foundational need if we expect to excel in life. Striving for excellence is biblical. A writer once wrote that “Vision is more like a compass than a roadmap”. When I read that this morning I started to think about the importance of not only being on the right road, but heading the right direction on that road. We have all learned direction by reference point. When I was a child I learned that the barn was to the south , the garage was to the west, the field was east and town was north. To this day, if I need to reference direction, I relate it somehow to where the barn sat from where I am. The analogy has worked for me all over the world. My older brother, the thinker, ( who has a birthday tomorrow) challenged my understanding one day by telling me that if I were standing on the north pole, every direction from there would be south. I think as a young child, I decided that day that I was never going to take a trip to either pole because I would not be able to know which way the barn was. How ya gonna do your chores in life if you can’t find the barn?