Putting Out These Intentions To The Universe

I think it is very important to wish for things. Not just wish, but pray for good things to happen and then keep living, It is not quite goal making and not just wishful thinking either. I make picture books of the things that I want. I go through magazines and clip photos and describe why something in that photo makes me feel good.  I recently came across one that I had made about 3 years ago while I was going through a great trial. I was living in Korea (I'm married to a soldier) and had been through a medical injury that left me bed bound. To give myself something to hang on to, I clipped pictures that described the life I wanted to live. There were pictures of chickens and barns. There was a terrific house and fields with great round hay bales. I showed photos of the pets that I wanted and even cut outs of future grandchildren! I even had a name for the place where the backdrop of my life would take place. I had called it Cardinal Meadows. This would be my farm.

After returning home to my beloved Missouri I lived in a rental home in town for a year and a half while waiting for my soldier husband to come home from Korea too. I had gotten home earlier on special dispensation from the Army to get my medical problems taken care of. In preparation for his arrival I had decided it was time to purchase a home that we would probably retire in. God found me a place that I had been thinking of in my pictures. It is a little cabin tucked away in the woods. It has plenty of land for chickens and gardens and I love the inside of my house too. My home has character, with wood walls and a terrific kitchen. It is not too big and not too small.  I have birds out the back window at my feeders.

Before I had run across the picture book I had made, I had named the place Redbird Hollow. I had forgotten my picture book, So when I found it while going through papers as we were moving in, I was very surprised to see how closely life had mimicked my little dream book. Three years ago, before any of this had happened, I had named my home Cardinal Meadows. It has been a miracle. There are many things that will take years to happen (having grand kids), but most of the book has come true. So I am thinking that more picture books are in order. Hoping for things not yet seen seems to be the way to go. Putting my intentions out to the universe is one way to say it, but I find that prayer to God is the ticket that works better. The pictures just solidify ideas best.

So I want pictures of my ideal business. I want pictures of me being healthy and free from fibromialgia. There will be clippings of beautiful gardens and jars full of blackberry jelly from my own land. I will believe for a great marriage and for both of my children s success. I will be able to sell my art and make a good living from it. I will be prosperous and not be poor, but not also be so well off that I would forsake Jesus. I am a woman of great faith and wisdom will be on my tongue. I am kind and loving. I have common sense and stick up for myself, I am intelligent and will use my God given abilities to bring about good in the world I live in. God's plan for me will come to pass.

So now it is out there.