{"id":10102,"date":"2022-02-10T15:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=10102"},"modified":"2022-02-10T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:32:25","slug":"the-evergreen-journal-5-dreams-on-your-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/the-evergreen-journal-5-dreams-on-your-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evergreen Journal #5 ~ New Dreams on Your Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Dreams on Your Horizon\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Evergreen Journal #5<\/em><\/h2>\n

February 11, 2022<\/em><\/h2>\n

New Dreams on Your Horizon<\/em><\/h2>\n
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This week, I enjoyed a quiet dinner with my husband and daughter at a local restaurant. As we sat chatting together before our food arrived, I had an unusual experience.<\/p>\n

In a flash, I saw some critical events from long ago. A sharp vision appeared as I spoke with my family. I looked across the table at them, but I also saw a graphic representation of an encounter from 1976. I saw myself at my first painting class!<\/p>\n

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I seemed to be supernaturally viewing my younger self a segment from my past. It felt like I was watching a movie. I was transported to a different time. In this vision I was thirty-three years old again.<\/p>\n

The image popped into focus. I saw a timeline of a specific point on a long journey over my lifetime.<\/p>\n

The initial picture I saw began to reveal a linear view.\u00a0 I witnessed my own life passage. Suddenly, I understood why the theme of passage is an enduring theme in my creative life.<\/p>\n

From decades of studies in art history, I know we can only understand current events in the context of a timeline over layers of years.<\/p>\n

I ask, “What led up to this event?”<\/p>\n

Past events cannot be erased or changed. Each past event was preceded by another earlier encounter of some sort. Understanding a story begins with an investigation of the past.<\/p>\n

Each area I saw was a significant place on my individual timeline. These were places when I shed something familiar and turned towards something new and often frightening. I thought of my lesson in understanding what an evergreen plant does and why it thrives. The plant or tree sheds as it grows simultaneously.<\/p>\n

I thought about my own progression in various life changes during our casual conversation. All the stops of the crucial moments of changes directly connected to a timeline that I saw intuitively. In a flash, I stepped out of time and place. I watched a series of photos on a screen in the distance.<\/p>\n

I began to think about unique moments that I could recognize as a stopping place.<\/p>\n

These were the places of change where something new or unexpected happened.<\/p>\n

In each of those life-changing periods, there was a shift. Something happened that propelled me forward in the path of my life-path where I was at that time, and when something happened, that gave me a new direction. One by One, I was able to see those singular moments as I considered my own trajectory. In each encounter, I moved onward.<\/p>\n

I suddenly understood that a new person stepped forward to give me the next direction that changed my world.<\/p>\n

Over dinner, we spoke about how God provides to take us from one place to the next.<\/p>\n

Upon reflection, I saw a timeline with each of the key people there at a particular intersection time.<\/p>\n

Our dreams are waiting for us to find them. So, prepare to shed the past, step out and pivot to the new place in the future. It’s a miraculous journey.<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit is the one who knows our future and reveals the dreams that are given to us by God.<\/p>\n

He is the one who planted the dreams deep in my heart.<\/p>\n

At the time of the pivot, we are given choices.<\/p>\n

If we decide to move on without taking the first step in seeking God’s guidance, we will undermine ourselves. When we follow our own devices, things unravel. We each have a divine purpose.<\/p>\n

The journey to your new dream is already waiting on the horizon. \u00a0\u00a0Your dream consists of many little action steps. First, prepare to make a choice that will take you to a new place in the future. Life is waiting for you to take that first step.<\/p>\n

\u00a92022. Lynda McKinney Lambert.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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About The Evergreen Journal<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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I<\/em>\u2019ve adopted the word, \u201cevergreen\u201d for this year.<\/h5>\n

During 2022, I\u2019ll\u00a0search out the deeper meaning of my ONE WORD.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be sharing\u00a0creative non-fiction stories, thoughtful personal essays, and spare poems. Thank you for visiting today. Please tell me what you think in the \u201ccomments\u201d section.<\/p>\n

~Lynda McKinney Lambert, American Author<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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