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Reality.) The speaker pointed out that the mind thinks in pictures, not in
words. And as we vividly picture in our mind what we desire, it will
become a reality.
This concept struck a chord of creativity in my heart. I knew the
Biblical truth that the Lord gives us "the desires of our heart" (Psalms
37:4) and that "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7).
I was determined to take my written prayer list and turn it into pictures.
I began cutting up old magazines and gathering pictures that depicted
the "desires of my heart." I arranged them in an expensive photo album
and waited expectantly.
I was very specific with my pictures. They included:
1. A good-looking man
2. A woman in a wedding gown and a man in a tuxedo
3. Bouquets of flowers (I'm a romantic)
4. Beautiful diamond jewelry (I rationalized that God loved David and
Solomon and they were two of the richest men who ever lived)
5. An island in the sparkling blue Caribbean
6. A lovely home
7. New furniture
8. A woman who had recently become vice president of a large
corporation. (I was working for a company that had no female officers. I
wanted to be the first woman vice president in that company.)
About eight weeks later, I was driving down a California freeway,
minding my own business at 10:30 in the morning. Suddenly a gorgeous
red-and-white Cadillac passed me. I looked at the car because it was a
beautiful car. And the driver looked at me and smiled, and I smiled back
because I always smile. Now I was in deep trouble. Have you ever done
that? I tried to pretend that I hadn't looked. "Who me? I didn't look at
you!" He followed me for the next 15 miles. Scared me to death! I drove
a few miles, he drove a few miles. I parked, he parked.... and eventually
I married him!
On the first day after our first date, Jim sent me a dozen roses. Then I
found out that he had a hobby. His hobby was collecting diamonds. Big
ones! And he was looking for somebody to decorate. I volunteered! We
dated for about two years and every Monday morning I received a long-
stemmed red rose and a love note from him.
About three months before we were getting married, Jim said to me, "I
have found the perfect place to go on our honeymoon. We will go to St.
John's Island down in the Caribbean." I laughingly said, "I never would
have thought of that!"
I did not confess the truth about my picture book until Jim and I had
been married for almost a year. It was then that we were moving into
our gorgeous new home and furnishing it with the elegant furniture that
I had pictured. (Jim turned out to be the West Coast wholesale
distributor for one of the finest eastern furniture manufacturers.)
By the way, the wedding was in Laguna Beach, California, and included
the gown and tuxedo as realities. Eight months after I created my dream
book, I became the vice president of human resources in the company
where I worked.
In some sense this sounds like a fairy tale, but it is absolutely true. Jim
and I have made many "picture books" since we have been married.
God has filled our lives with the demonstration of these powerful
principles of faith at work.
Decide what it is that you want in every area of your life. Imagine it
vividly. Then act on your desires by actually constructing your personal
goal book. Convert your ideas into concrete realities through this simple
exercise. There are no impossible dreams. And, remember, God has
promised to give His children the desires of their heart.
Glenna Salsbury
Another Check Mark On The List
One rainy afternoon an inspired 15-year-old boy named John Goddard
sat down at his kitchen table in Los Angeles and wrote three words at
the top of a yellow pad, "My Life List." Under that heading he wrote
down 127 goals. Since then he has completed 108 of those goals. Look
at the list of Goddard's goals which appears below. These are not simple
or easy goals. They include climbing the world's major mountains,
exploring vast waterways, running a mile in five minutes, reading the
complete works of Shakespeare and reading the entire Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Explore:
1. Nile River
2. Amazon River
3. Congo River
4. Colorado River
5. Yangtze River, China
6. Niger River
7. Orinoco River, Venezuela
8. Rio Coco, Nicaragua
Study Primitive Cultures In:
9. The Congo
10. New Guinea
11. Brazil
12. Borneo
13. The Sudan (John was nearly buried alive in a sandstorm.)
14. Australia
15. Kenya
16. The Philippines
17. Tanganyika (now Tanzania)
18. Ethiopia
19. Nigeria
20. Alaska
Climb:
21. Mount Everest
22. Mount Aconcagua, Argentina
23. Mount McKinley
24. Mount Huascaran, Peru
25. Mount Kilimanjaro
26. Mount Ararat, Turkey
27. Mount Kenya
28. Mount Cook, New Zealand
29. Mount Popocatepetl, Mexico
30. The Matterhorn
31. Mount Rainer
32. Mount Fuji
33. Mount Vesuvius
34. Mount Bromo, Java
35. Grand Tetons
36. Mount Baldy, California
37. Carry out careers in medicine and exploration (Studied premed and
treats illnesses among primitive tribes)
38. Visit every country in the world (30 to go)
39. Study Navaho and Hopi Indians
40. Learn to fly a plane
41. Ride horse in Rose Parade
Photograph:
42. Iguacu Falls, Brazil
43. Victoria Falls, Rhodesia (Chased by a warthog in the process)
44. Sutherland Falls, New Zealand
45. Yosemite Falls
46. Niagara Falls
47. Retrace travels of Marco Polo and Alexander the Great
Explore Underwater:
48. Coral reefs of Florida
49. Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Photographed a 300-pound clam)
50. Red Sea
51. Fiji Islands
52. The Bahamas
53. Explore Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglades
Visit:
54. North and South Poles
55. Great Wall of China
56. Panama and Suez Canals
57. Easter Island
58. The Galapagos Islands
59. Vatican City (Saw the pope)
60. The Taj Mahal
61. The Eiffel Tower
62. The Blue Grotto
63. The Tower of London
64. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
65. The Sacred Well of Chichen-Itza, Mexico
66. Climb Ayers Rock in Australia
67. Follow River Jordan from Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea
Swim In:
68. Lake Victoria
69. Lake Superior
70. Lake Tanganyika
71. Lake Titicaca, South America
72. Lake Nicaragua
Accomplish:
73. Become an Eagle Scout
74. Dive in a submarine
75. Land on and take off from an aircraft carrier
76. Fly in a blimp, hot air balloon and glider
77. Ride an elephant, camel, ostrich and bronco
78. Skin dive to 40 feet and hold breath two and a half minutes
underwater
79. Catch a ten-pound lobster and a ten-inch abalone
80. Play flute and violin
81. Type 50 words a minute
82. Take a parachute jump
83. Learn water and snow skiing
84. Go on a church mission
85. Follow the John Muir Trail
86. Study native medicines and bring back useful ones
87. Bag camera trophies of elephant, lion, rhino, cheetah, cape buffalo
and whale
88. Learn to fence
89. Learn jujitsu
90. Teach a college course
91. Watch a cremation ceremony in Bali
92. Explore depths of the sea
93. Appear in a Tarzan movie (He now considers this an irrelevant
boyhood dream)
94. Own a horse, chimpanzee, cheetah, ocelot and coyote (Yet to own a
chimp or cheetah)
95. Become a ham radio operator
96. Build own telescope
97. Write a book (On Nile trip)
98. Publish an article in National Geographic Magazine
99. High jump five feet
100. Broad jump 15 feet
101. Run a mile in five minutes
102. Weigh 175 pounds stripped (still does)
103. Perform 200 sit-ups and 20 pull-ups
104. Learn French, Spanish and Arabic
105. Study dragon lizards on Komodo Island (Boat broke down within
20 miles of island)
106. Visit birthplace of Grandfather Sorenson in Denmark
107. Visit birthplace of Grandfather Goddard in England
108. Ship aboard a freighter as a seaman
109. Read the entire Encyclopedia Britannia (Has read extensive parts
in each volume)
110. Read the Bible from cover to cover
111. Read the works of Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Thoreau,
Poe, Rousseau, Bacon, Hemingway, Twain, Burroughs, Conrad,
Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Whittier and Emerson (Not every
work of each)
112. Become familiar with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven,
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