Last month I wrote about a webinar presented by Mary Morrissey.  After the webinar, I went looking for her first book on Kindle, but it wasn’t available.  I wanted to know how to bring my dreams into reality.  My search gave me two different places to start, two different life questions to ask.

Life Question #1 from Rev. Michael B. Beckwith’s Life Visioning

Amazon recommended Rev. Michael B. Beckwith’s Life Visioning: A Transformative Process for Activating Your Unique Gifts and Higher Potential.  I’ve read Rev. Michael before and enjoyed his work, so I decided to give it a go.

The results surprised me.  The first question in the process is “What is the highest vision for my life?  What seeks to emerge in, through, and as my life?”  My intuition responded to this question with two songs: “Love and Marriage” and “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart….”

I’ve pretty much given up on finding the love of my life.  And while I deeply desire joy and peace, I expected a vision that had to do with writing.

I repeated the process later in the week with the same results.  It seemed to me that spirit was telling me there’s more to life than my vocation.

But I couldn’t help wondering, where does writing fit in all this?

Life Question #2 from Mary Morrissey’s The Power of Purpose

Later in the month, about 2 weeks ago, I enrolled in Mary Morrissey’s program: The Power of Purpose.

Mary Morrissey asks a different question than Rev. Michael B. Beckwith.  She asks, “What would I love?”  And she urges us to look at our areas of longing and discontent.

My deepest longing at this point in my life is to support myself full-time as a creative writer.  I also long to overcome my persistent tendency to oversleep.

If I’m completely honest with myself, I would also love to find the love of my life and spend time together attending retreats, conferences, concerts, recitals, services, readings, lectures, plays, operas, movies, and exhibits as well as going out to eat and taking walks.

And I would love to lose 55-65 lbs. and be able to freely eat all the healthy foods I love, many of which I’m sensitive to.

And I want to keep up my daily rituals: writing “morning pages,” meditating, and walking.

The Relationship between Life Visioning and The Power of Purpose

Why, I wondered, did I get such different results from the two questions?  Is writing really as important for me as I think it is?  Should I be devoting more time to relationships instead?  Or more time to meditation?

I’m not sure of the answers to my questions, but I’d hazard a guess.  I think Life Visioning asks a big picture question while asking, “What would I love?” accesses the details.

I don’t feel ready for a relationship, so, for now, I think it makes most sense to pursue the vocation I dream of.  It’s also important that I continue to work toward peace and joy through my spiritual practices.

Who knows what the result of all this will be?  All I do know is that there’s more to life than I can possibly imagine, but it’s my responsibility to move toward the dreams I do imagine one little step at a time.

What about You?

What is your highest vision for your life?  And what would you love to be, do, and have?  How do they relate?  Share in the comments.