Happy 2023!! I know it's February now and that the year is therefore well under way, but I still feel like I'm recovering from the holidays so I'm gonna keep saying it. 2022 absolutely flew by, and I have a feeling this year will too... I don’t know about the rest of you, but the holidays this year were all-consuming and I’m really thankful to have the normal pace of life back. I love the joy and fun that comes from being with the people I love, and I also need rest and routines in order to thrive in my day-to-day life. Especially if I’m going to be ready for all of the increase this year will hold! God has given me a system of routines that act like a support lattice for everything else He wants to add. I need to hold onto them first and prioritize the health that they give me so there will be room for more. And I’m really excited for all the “more!”
Like many people, I start the year in reflection and prayer and ask God for a theme, verse, or word to carry with me. This year God gave me the word “patience.” I have to admit that I was far from excited to hear that when He first said it, but I’ve been praying about what that means for this year and He’s given me a beautiful perspective on what patience means in my life this year. I think my initial reaction was based on an assumption that He was telling me I needed patience. I was assuming He was saying this year would be arduous and hard to get through. I can’t say that won’t be the case (although I really hope it isn’t), but God said that’s not why He told me this year is about patience. I feel like patience is the gift He’s giving me this year. He isn’t just bracing me for hard things to come, He’s promising me the grace to get through them. It’s still not quite as cheerful as a word like “joy” or “increase” would have been, but I have a feeling those things will come in time as well.
I get to rest in knowing that my story is just beginning. It doesn’t make the wait go by any faster, but it does give me hope for what lies on the other side of it.
Patience gives me the strength to know that what’s coming is worth waiting for. I’m not sure how long I’ll have to be patient or what all I’ll need to be patient for, but it’s pretty cool knowing that this year is about patience because that means that something spectacular is going to happen along the way. Maybe even a few spectacular things - we’ll have to wait and see!!
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