If you are in the Oklahoma City area and you haven’t signed up to come hear Greg Gunn, please reconsider. This year is going to be filled with divine appointments and divine connections. I believe this is one of them. Let me tell you why Saturday’s Eye to Eye meeting (from 5pm to 7pm at St. Paul’s, 10600 N. Council, 73162) is worth making a sacrifice to attend.
Family Vision is an organization that assists families in writing an actual vision for their households. I can’t tell you how much my heart is moved by seeing a family’s written vision on the wall of their homes. What a powerful step to make in refusing to be a family that crumbles under the weight of our culture. Now, we all know that couples don’t sit around discussing how they will make their children fail in life, but somehow it happens. The Eye to Eye community is different. We sit around thinking about how we can help our children succeed. We expose traps. We share our strategies…all of the time. When we discover something new, we share it. Why? Because, we can fail without planning, but we won’t succeed without a plan.
By writing a vision, you are setting a direction, sharing your heart with your household, giving your marriage a reason to endure hard times, and so much more. I don’t think I need to discuss the devastation of families for us to appreciate the value of tools like Family Vision.
For the last two years, my brother and I have talked about writing out a vision for our families with Family Vision. In fact, the idea of writing a family vision seemed to fit perfect with the heartbeat of Eye to Eye. We considered how great it would be to do this as one of Eye to Eye’s monthly activities. The very idea of having a written, family vision on the wall of our homes seemed to fit perfectly with what God is doing.
About four months ago, I went to a weekend leadership retreat, only to room with a close friend of Greg Gunn. Family Vision had transformed this young man’s life and family. He couldn’t talk about anything else! He absolutely loved his family and called his wife with excitement every evening. When he heard about Eye to Eye and our monthly schedule, he immediately saw how Family Vision’s tools would be a perfect addition to Eye to Eye. I could not agree more.
After my meeting with Greg Gunn, I could only thank the Lord for the great things that He is doing to restore our families. We will not be writing our visions on Saturday, but you will hear something so great about the purpose of our marriages. We have such an awesome opportunity in front of us! Come and be a part of Eye to Eye’s second wave. We hope to see you this Saturday, January 21st from 5pm to 7pm in the Activity Center at St. Paul’s, 10600 N. Council.
