I love beginnings. I love fresh starts.
I’ve long been drawn to “path pictures” because they represent these beginnings and fresh starts. A chance to (as the Apostle Paul says) forget what is behind and press forward to what lies ahead.
Of course, we don’t truly “forget” the past in the sense that what’s behind us is forgotten. Rather, with determination, we choose not to dwell on the past, on what’s behind us that we cannot change.
Instead, we face forward, chin up, faith fully engaged and trusting in the One who spoke the world into existence, and we step into the unknown where God is already waiting for us and is actively working on our behalf.
Where he wants us to find him, to join him.
So…
Happy New Year, friend! And welcome to 2019! A new beginning and fresh start.
I pray 2019 is filled with peace and love and prosperity and happiness for you. But far more, I pray that this New Year is one in which you (and I) take steps closer to Christ, no matter where that leads us.
I pray 2019 is a year in which we seek God with all our hearts, and where we discover the depths of his faithfulness and lovingkindness in a way we haven’t before.
And that we get to do this together is such a blessing!
Do you have something you’d like for me—and our community—to pray about as the New Year begins?
I so appreciate your continued prayers for my sweet dad as we walk this road of dementia. Please pray for me to “walk him home well.” To be what he needs. To treasure every minute with him even as I consistently point him ever Homeward, to Jesus, and to “the best that’s yet to come!”
There’s awesome power in prayer and in leaning into the unshakable truth that the Holy Spirit is praying for us too. And if that isn’t encouragement enough, the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus lives forever to intercede with God on a believer’s behalf (Hebrews 7:25). #incredibleblessing
Please take a minute and share something in the comment section below. It’s a privilege to be able to pray for one another!
Much love and blessings in 2019!
Tammy
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