We have a vision for a better future.  The future is coming to the present.  We don’t know (and can’t) exactly how it will all happen but we can live with a heightened sense of expectancy.  We want to live ready, aware that our time is limited.

We want to live with a sense of urgency but not despair or anxiety.  That is the beautiful tension of those with a vision: urgency not anxiety.  We can’t make things grow.  There is still a process in place.  Life will force us to be patient. 

But patience is not dullness.  And while waiting for one thing to blossom over here we can start planting something else over here.  That is really the baseline of mission work (or franchising).  We start one thing here, then work on another over there…