Our first Monday of the new year!
How blessed are you?
It’s a valid question in light of today’s Text.
Holy hugs, Kathie
Blessed?
Category Archives: 2026
A Freebie
As I picked up the Scriptures to resume reading where I left off in 2025, the first words I read were: ‘Be imitators of GOD.’
What does that walk out like, you think?
Be Imitators of GOD.
How do we learn to imitate GOD?
How do our children imitate us?
It’s something to think about, right? Something to watch and learn just how we are influenced by the people we live with.
Shall we watch GOD so closely, listen so often that we imitate Him as easily as our children imitate us?
It’s a worthy question to ponder today, isn’t it?
Example: I never instructed our little great-grand to say, “Oh dear,” but he did, and very appropriately, I might add. I didn’t even realize I was saying it frequently until I heard him say it!
caveat here: GOD always knows what He is saying.
As I record these words to this screen, there are more hours of Day 1 already spent than there are left to invest.
Day 1 is usually a freebie, right? We eat a little more, sleep a little more — even I caught a nap today — than we have promised ourselves we will do this new year. Some of us even stretch out the freebie for more than a day, like until tomorrow, then the weekend, and then, I’ll start on Monday, the 5th. Does GOD do that?
In that case, my freebie is about spent.
Holy hugs, Kathie
Stacks Up
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.
Holy hugs, Kathie
