New Year, New Start

Here we are at the beginning of another year, can you believe it?! This is the time of year when we all make those New Year’s resolutions that might make it to March before we are right back to our default routines. Making changes are hard, can I get an amen?

2017 kind of crept up on me faster than I expected it to. With the busyness of the holiday season and life happening, it didn’t really cross my mind that January 1st meant a new year. I didn’t sit down ahead of time and make a list of goals or changes I wanted to make this year (but really, when do I ever).

However, the one thing that has been tugging at my heart for a while now is spending more intentional time with God and deepening that relationship, whether it’s in prayer, reading, or journaling. Don’t we all want more of that? It seems like a major feat to accomplish at this point. With a one year old and my never ending amount of chores it seems almost impossible to make daily time to spend with God.

I started in a new journaling bible for the year and this is the inaugural page. It is such a perfect verse to start off the year. These past few months I have been full of grief. I have felt like I have been walking in the desert, the wasteland, alone. But I can feel the trickle of His renewing water seeping into the dry cracked earth. I feel God quenching my thirst quiet time by quiet time.

He has already begun something new in me. I can feel all the pieces coming together. I can already tell that 2017 is going to be different. I feel this drive and sense of purpose bubbling beneath the surface.

I know how things have worked out in the past. Making promises to myself that things will be different this year, that I’ll make time, and then end up feeling like a failure because weeks have gone by in what feels like the blink of an eye. But, He is doing something new. It has already begun with that little tug on my heart. He is making rivers in the dry wasteland of my being.

Let me tell you, God is good.

I know that this won’t be a perfect year, just like all the others that came before. But I can give myself grace to do the best that I can and remember that He is the one that holds it all in His hands.

Peace & Love,
Jeanna