She applied to one of the local grocery chains. The video store closed and as a result, Kelly was unemployed. ![]() The owner encouraged Kelly to find a position somewhere. The owner taught Kelly what she knew and the two parted ways. It turned out that Kelly had great talent. She even bought books for her on floral arranging and proceeded to apprentice Kelly in the art. The owner, seeing Kelly’s pure desire agreed. She so wanted to learn the art of floral arranging that she volunteered to do it for free to have the opportunity to be mentored by her. The woman told Kelly that she couldn’t afford to pay her. She told her how she longingly looked from across the street at her flower shop each day. Kelly asked her if she could be her apprentice. One day she went into the floral shop to meet the owner. The business was dwindling at the video shop, so she had a lot of time to stare at the floral arrangements across the street. She wistfully looked through the front window at this floral shop thinking how much she would love to arrange flowers. In the florist’s windows were beautiful arrangements of flowers every day. Three years ago Kelly worked at a video store. I dumped my being in a rush and said, “I love stories! Please tell me!” With a soft voice that was almost a whisper, she said there was a story behind it. I asked her how long she had been doing it and she told me about three years. I said, “You really know what you’re doing.” She chuckled and replied with a yes, telling me how much she loved arranging flowers. She picked out four beautiful leaves and began to sculpt the leaves into a decoration expertly clipping and pruning and making the leaves beautiful before the flowers were ever put into the vase. I was kind of in a hurry and was going to assemble the bouquet myself, but she asked if I wanted her to put it together for me. ![]() She said, “Yes,” and recommended adding some green leaves to fill out the arrangement. Then I looked on the shelf for an appropriate vase.įinding one, I asked the floral manager if she thought the vase would be big enough. My eyes fell upon a lovely bouquet of flowers that was perfect. I walked into the local grocery store to buy some flowers as a birthday surprise gift. Let me tell you a story of someone who had a vision. As the proverb says, “Where there is no vision the people perish.” A True Story of Vision It’s important that we live in the present moment, however, we must have a vision. I was asking myself the question, “What is my vision? What do I see?” This phrase was swirling around in my head after attending a marketing seminar. “Where there is no vision the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18.
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