Admonishment + Holy Spirit = Joy

Reading through Galatians this week has been a joy. That isn't my normal reaction when reading through a book filled with such admonishment. Paul is as rarely this blunt with observations or as urgent with his pleas. The Galatians are in a world of trouble and it came not long after Paul left. He knows they are ripe to be led astray and he is worried.

The reason it has been such a joy for me is because

Vision and Focus

The topic of vision seems to come up a lot in my life. Not the 20/20 you need bi-focals kind of vision, you see. But the the leading people visionary kind of vision. I just always seem to be in position to have conversations about vision or be reading books about vision or even writing vision statements.

I believe this may be in part to the fact that I