Yesterday, a group of women met at my house to create vision
boards. I love vision boards because I like to see where I am heading!
But what I noticed, aside from the cutting out of pictures and arranging
them on a board, was how sharing the desires of our hearts brings us
closer.

Often in my past, I have felt I needed to protect my
dreams, hold them close to my heart like tiny children that need to be
shielded. Perhaps there is a measure of reality in that - we have all
shared a dream only to have someone we love, we respect, we look up to
dash it with a single phrase, regardless of how well meant.

But
yesterday, I saw how energizing it was to share dreams with those we
trust.

Sonia
Choquette calls it having “believing eyes” - meaning I believe in
you, I believe in your dreams. In our lives, it is easy to feel
diminished, but seldomly do we feel honored and encouraged. “Believing
eyes” are such a gift to those around us.

I watched as this group
of women with very different dreams supported each other’s quest to
make their dreams visible. There was no judgment about what each woman
had chosen as her vision - we all had “believing eyes”.

Honoring a
vision is something we do for ourselves as well as for others. I tend
to forget to be the cheerleader for myself that I am for my friends.
For me, looking at my “board of dreams” reminds me to also have
believing eyes for myself.

So this week, perhaps you might want
to experiment with “I believe in you, I believe in me, I believe in us”
to quote Sonia. And then pause to feel the honor that comes from
“believing eyes”.

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