Follower of Yeshua. Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother. Some call me a teacher. Some say I'm a prayer warrior. A few accredit me with some writing skills. Me? I say I'm a work in slow progress, looking for perfection in eternity and until then having all the holy fun I know how.
I’ve lived a while. There have been a lot of New Year’s Eves and Day Ones for me. Tonight, I am thinking about New Year’s Eves of long ago, back in the 1980s. Back then, people gathered to celebrate with food, games, and laughter. As the night drew closer to midnight, they came together to “pray-in” the New Year. I’m not kidding— gathered at the church building, got down on bended knees in the altar area, and prayed together, out loud!
I don’t think this is practiced today in 2025/2026.
However, your first day of 2026 stacks up, may I encourage you to intentionally seek The LORD, not just for blessings, protection, and all those things we need, but seek HIM. Seek Him to know His heart for you, His will for you, His purposes for you in 2026.
Eat well, pray well, do well—2026 just may stack up accordingly for you.
Out with the old, in with the new. You have heard the saying, right?
Today seems to be a good day to bring it up – the last day of 2025. Out with the old and in with the new. Not to be a party pooper, but it’s just another day, isn’t it? And yet it’s my favorite. To be done with the old, wide-eyed, stretching tippy toes for that new beginning just hours away. A new canvas to paint a new landscape, better, brighter, bolder than the one finishing up today. And, of course, there’s the food. Black-eyed peas, collards or cabbage, and cornbread. Eat like that all year, and we’d all be healthier in body and finances by year’s end.
Have I always been this enthusiastic about a new year? Actually, no. It took time with JESUS to get here. He had to give me a new nature and a Biblical worldview to bring me here. It’s good to be here. I expect if He gives me all the days of 2026, when I arrive here again, I will again be on tippy toes looking to the next horizon. How about you?
17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation 19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5
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