2026, Questions

A Freebie

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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.  

Ephesians 5

Holy hugs, Kathie

First steps into the New Year.
2026

Stacks Up

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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 

Happy New Year!
2 Corinthians, 2025, Salvation

Tippy-Toes

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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 

Happy New Year, Friends!

Holy hugs, Kathie

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