VISION #13: Speak fluent Spanish… Sí Podemos!
I just called 1-800-600-0941 and ordered a free CD-ROM demo copy of the Spanish Rosetta Stone language learning tool.
The woman said that Rosetta Stone helps people learn different languages by associating images with words.
Sounds good to me.
I toyed with asking her for the French CD-ROM first.
Think I’ll call back and get that one too.
Fluent Español, here we come.
Yes we can! Sí Podemos!
VISION #12: Intimate Dinner Party with Great Friends, Great Conversations, Great Food and Great Googally Moogally Red Wine…
I’ve got a couple of four packs of little bottles of red wine that my husband picked up from the grocery store the other day.
They rest in my cupboard now, because I’m playing keep-away from the wine as my body shrinks from the winter pounds I put on.
I’m declaring that I’ll open them during my next dinner party — or bring them to the next one I’m invited to.
Let it be healthy, holy and fun, with great friends and intimate conversations whereby we open our souls.
I love dinner parties.
And while I tripped out when my friend said that black people don’t like having other black people over — then chuckled when I read on Stuff White People Like that next day that white people love dinner parties, it seemed apropos to write one out now for my twelfth vision.
Truth is, I need one.
I need company.
I need good friends.
It’s been since New Year’s Eve that we had our Wii Party — and that seemed to last too short of a time.
I’m ready to hang out again for hours at one of those great dinner parties where you get so caught up in the food and wine and friendship and love that the kids crash in another room from playing so hard and having so much fun whilst the adults talk and have deep belly laughs.
Amen.
VISION #11: Build shelter, feed, clothe and show the complete love of Christ the Savior to hurting children in Africa…
When I see footage like the below video of a man who used to sell drugs, but “threw up a prayer to see if there is a God” after his girlfriend was killed in a drug deal, and Christ turned his life around, eventually leading him to Africa, I bristle at the shoeless, hungry children walking around.
This guy went to the Congo, and saw children walking around barefoot on hard lava.
They talked to people who were hungry — and one boy whose hand was cut off and face slashed as a baby, when he was found as a 7-month-old in his mom’s arms.
His mom had been killed.
So the man from Canada had his own life turned around for the better by Jesus — as have I and so many more people — and jumped at the opportunity to go to Africa and help build dorms.
He said the kids may not have lived without the shelter.
I already sponsor two African children thru Christian Children’s Fund – and I will do so much more.
Like use some of the money God’s flowing abundantly in my life to fund projects that actually put shoes on the children, buy them medicine, feed and clothe them.
There’s no reason for peopel to live like this.
And I will do so much more to help fulfill Jesus’ words when He said, “When I was hungry, you fed me…”
VISION: #10: A new church website that brings us closer together…
A few days last week I stayed up pretty late into the wee morning hours working on a prototype of a new website for our church.
I envision an interactive, neat and constantly updated website written and managed by a loving team of folks who keep the site flowing to help bring our congregation together more.
With weekly email updates letting members and constituents know what’s going on at “The House,” I see the website reaching people who don’t even go to the church, but find it thru Google.
It’ll end up being a one-stop praising place for the latest church news, videos, donations, book buying, everything.
The main thing I see our new website doing to advancing communication so much so in our body of Christ that it helps to propel us forward into our new season of blessings.
I can feel it.
I stood at the altar yesterday during 1st service as Bishop Joey called us down, with a crowd of souls — hands lifted in the air — beseeching the Lord to make our callings and elections sure.
“This week,” Bishop Joey implored.
As soon as he asked God to “break” the strongholds, exactly what I was praying too, I knew the Lord of the breakthrough was breaking bad stuff and making way for the fabulous…
VISION #9: Debt-free…
Yesterday I sat in a class at church called How To Get Out of Debt…And Into Praise, based on the book of the same name by Chicago Pastor James Meeks.
The pastor leading the class had us close our eyes and imagine ourselves debt free.
“Can you see it?” he asked. “Cars paid off…houses paid off?”
Yes, I can actually see it.
It feels like a black cloud lifted off of me.
VISION #8: Really soft hands, cuddly soft feet…
Tyra Banks once said that baking soda helps to soften hands, so I Googled “soft hands” and “baking soda” and found this cool tip.
I’m glad I’ve got sugar and oil and gloves and everything I need to soften my hands, so I’ll use it on my feet, too.
Carressingly soft hands and soles are mine!
VISION #7: The five trillion people you meet in heaven… I want to be greeted by a GooglePlex
You’ve heard of Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven book.
Well, I never read it, but I do have a very hopeful and important vision for the day I “go to glory,” as my dad puts it.
One very important vision for my future is being reunited with folks who’ve died and entered heaven because of their belief in Christ that granted them the keys to the Kingdom — from the Hall of Faith folks (that ethereal “cloud of witnesses” like Abraham and such) to my mom and grandmom.
And for those still on this Earth who’ll die either before and or after me, I have such a prayerful longing to see them in heaven, too.
The Five Trillion People I’ll Meet in Heaven…
Since this blog is all about writing out your desires and dreams and visions and watching the ones God wills come to pass, I’m so looking forward to convening with Grandma Tucker, my dad, my husband Chris, Cameron, Cara, Orvelle and Uncle Willie, Christine, Ed, George, Elise, Amber, Dion, Morgan, Kelly, Corie, Carl, Kevin, Chi and K, Lu, Lissy, Emily, Julia, Babs, Diane, Mike, Ben, Natalie, Ben, Maia, Santana, Erica, Tyree, Faith, Hope, Eric and more in heaven, worshipping past those liquid-like pearly gates as Don Piper described them in 90 Minutes in Heaven and calling out:
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory! (Isaiah 6:3)
VISION #6: Brighter, cleaner, healthier teeth … breath that’s always “kissing fresh”
I love fresh and clean and healthy teeth.
My husband kids me about how much I love those teeth whiteners.
So when his parents told me about this new Luster 1 Hour White
It should be available soon at Walgreens, and I’m all over it.
So my next vision for my whole family are smiles as white and bright as The Osmonds.
Healthy and clean and cavity- and gingivitis-free mouths with breath that’s always “kissing fresh,” as my mom once eloquently advised me.
I’m glad my teeth are already in great shape — thanks to four years of wearing braces — so a little spiffing up to brighten them will make me look even younger.
Amen again.
VISION #5: A check from me to The House of the Lord for $50,000 — By God it will happen!
We’ve got a special stewardship campaign going on at church.
Nearly three years ago, I sat in the pews accepting the vision of how much God was going to move our church — spiritually, financially…lots of ways.
Anyway, we needed to come up with a commitment amount of how much we would give over the coming three years.
“How much should I give?” I asked Jehovah Jireh, my provider, as I studied the card.
“Fifty thousand dollars,” He said pretty clearly.
“How much?” I asked again.
The answer came to my gut once again: $50,000
I wrote that number down on my commitment card.
It was later I learned that the amounts we wrote down were over and above our tithes. So I’ve been tithing, various amounts, and I know the Lord has something amazing in store.
Whether it comes from my coming book deal or somewhere else, I trust and believe something wonderfully excellent will come to help me fulfill my promise and write out that $50,000 check before three years is up.
I’ve seen the good the church has done in the community, and there’s much more to come.
I see on the commitment card that the end date of the three-year period is March 7, 2010 — so I believe if it’s God will, He will definitely do something big to get that money thru my hands to THOTL (or whatever good ground He sees fit to plant it in) by that day…
Thank You Lord. Amen and amen!
VISION #4: A Sweet Laptop…
I’ve read enough reviews and poked around on Amazon long enough — this suhweet, if not huge, Toshiba laptop is the one.
It’s time to turn the workstation over to my kids, and float about my house, the park, or wherever blogging when I feel the urge.
The sweet laptop will liberate me from this chair…
