I have tried to read and grow and challenge myself to step out of my own created box lately, but one thing keeps staring at me. Where there is no vision, people perish. I never understood the value of ‘vision’ and keeping in front of me until I grew up and realized that I didn’t know everything. In a very candid, transparent post, I’m going to walk through some of my recording errors.
I have been an amazing ‘starter’. I would start project with passion and zeal and it would slowly leak away. Instead of throwing in the towel and claiming, “Oh, I’m just a quitter. I get in to something and don’t like it, so I bail.” I decided to dig further into it. I started seeing a pattern. When the vision got too far from in front of me or started changing without it being ‘planned’ out, I lost sight of the vision. That made me feel like I was aimlessly wandering – and THAT’S where I lost my passion for pursuing a project.
In recording at two different studios, with two completely different producers with two completely different styles, [and being new with the recording process] I realized that I started off with a bang only to realize somewhere I hadn’t effectively communicated my vision. They both served me well. Here’s the side-note.
I’m NOT a big-picture thinker. I’m a process-implementation [small-focused] thinker. How amazing is it that God perfectly lined me up in marriage with an AMAZING big-picture thinker [but I'm just now seeing it after almost 11 years - oops!]? Had I allowed my weakness to get out of my way, I would have a completely finished recording project! If I had ‘employed’ the strength of my husband and ‘removed’ my weakness from the forefront, that vision would consistently have been in front of me. One thing I have learned about myself is, if vision is in front of me, a strong vision, I buy in and follow it whole-heartedly! If I cannot see the vision, or it gets blurry edges [because it isn't presented the same every time], it equals death for me.
It is SO important to keep vision in front of people. We LOVE following something – even it ends up being nothing. We have purpose and that purpose is following vision!
Two things:
1. Where there is no vision, people will perish. When vision is put on the shelf and forgotten about, people die a slow, exhausted death.
2. Accumulate people with strength where you have weakness around you and pull from them. We were put here to serve the Lord together. Not one of us is a WHOLE body with every part; that’s why we all have different strengths and weaknesses!
