Happy New Year friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week celebrating a new year! Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening! It truly means so much to me, that you would spend a little time with me today.
I’ll tell you I’m going into this new year more HOPEFUL than I’ve ever been in my entire life. Last year was ANOTHER really challenging year. After MANY, many really challenging years. Our family has walked through so much. As I’m sure you have as well. And for the first time in almost 14 years I can tell you we are in a new place. That the Lord has kept His promises. That He is in fact doing a new thing.
As a family, we started claiming Isaiah 43:18-19 in 2021. In August of that year we had just moved into a new home. My dream home. The home I thought we would be in for at least the next 5 years. And by October of 2021, it all seemed to come crashing down. Where was the new thing the Lord was doing? I thought, surely, this is some mistake. My life was crumbling in that season.
And here we are. January of 2024 and I can confidently say the Lord has done it. Is our life perfect? No, far from it. It never will be. But, am I confident in the Lord’s promises to me? Yes. And I want you to be too, my friend.
It took over a decade for my life to change. To get the breakthrough I had been pleading with the Lord for. It took years of holding onto scripture each year. It took journals and journals filled with tears and pouring out my heart to the Lord.
And I can say confidently that the Lord saw all of it. He saw every tear. Every desire of my heart. Every longing and broken place I asked him to heal.
And He’s doing it for me.
He will do it for you.
He’s not done with me yet, and I’m believing that I’m going to get just a little more healed and whole and set ablaze with passion for what the Lord is doing in me and for me each year ahead. But, I’m committed to the journey. I hope you will be too.
Do this for me. I want you to take a walk with Jesus this week, or get some time alone with the Lord and ask him to show you a verse that is yours to hold onto and speak of your life this year.
Invite him into your year.
I promise the greatest gift of your life will be learning to follow Jesus with your whole heart.
And if you’re a mama listening to the sound of my voice today, I want to encourage you to do something with your kids that will change their lives forever.
Are you teaching your children how to hear the voice of the Lord?
And my friend, this is where Jesus will show up and blow your mind. Jesus will go into our past experiences and he can heal them. He is the ultimate time traveler. He’s out outside of time.
Sweet listener, our children do not need to wait until they are adults to go to therapy and heal from trauma or scary things. God can heal and restore them TODAY. At 5 years old. At 8 years old. At 15. And You can lead them there. It’s so simple. And more powerful than you could ever imagine.
Can I encourage you lisenter to take the time. Capture these moments, to have slow feet with your kids, even when you’re tired and you’re ready to check out and be off duty for a moment. These everyday, ordinary moments will mark their childhood forever. These are holy moments.
When I first set out to home educate my children 5.5 years ago I decided that the thing that was most important to me at the end of this journey was seeing my children choose to have a relationship with Jesus. I didn’t really care what they learned academically. Sure, reading, writing, and are our cornerstones. But, most importantly, I wanted them to leave my home knowing how to have a healthy, growing relationship with Jesus into adulthood. And I will always put that first. Because they are my greatest ministry and treasure the Lord has ever given me.
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