"Artistic Mother" Vision Board Project

My next project in

The Artistic Mother by Shona Cole

is to make a vision board.

After 15 years of making "goal" posters

this is a familiar activity.

However . . . this feels more authentic than ever before.

Maybe it is because I know my own heart better than ever before.

Maybe it is because I have accepted and embraced myself and desires more than ever before.

But this is requiring me to take a deep breath as I prepare this post.

These are the vision, goals, values, and scripture that are my own.

And it is extremely vulnerable to lay my heart out there for the world to see.

And yet, I believe it is important. 

It is part of being real, being authentic, being courageous.

It is scary to even hang up in my own house.

But I am commited to living authentically for me and for my family.

This last week, I plugged back in to Beth Moore's broadcasts.

And watched "Don't throw away your confidence".

This is a bold, courageous, confident step for me to post.

But here's my heart, my hopes, my dreams, my goals ~

VISION

One of Beth's quotes was,

"What would a courageous person do in my situation? 

Be the person. 

Do it."

This is me doing it.

GOALS

MY VALUES

SCRIPTURE

In The Bible, in the book of John, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well.

Though they have never met, he knows everything about her.

She recognizes that He is the Messiah and tells everyone she meets

that she met a man who knew everything about her.

Through many experiences, I know that He knows me

better than I know myself.

I hope that as I share my stories of Him knowing me

Others will hear HIM for themselves and believe.

That is my prayer for my family:

that they will hear Him themselves

and believe

with their own faith,

their own hearts,

their own love,

know that He knows them

and know that this Man really is the Savior of the world

and of them individually & uniquely.

Photos & text copyright 2010 Jodene (Jodi) Shaw.