A BLESSED AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!

My dear readers,

Thank you for visiting my page every now and then. For over the years this blog has been a great outlet of how this wild mind of mine can be. Thank you for journeying with me in 2021 and on to the many more years. This year 2022 is another exciting adventure to take. And I want to keep a little promise to you, this blog, and for myself to give my best in life and in sharing what a wonderful life it is when lived in Christ. I hope you all will stick with me till the end. ❤

Love,
SAM

I always get excited every new year because it’s like a blank canvas and I want to get my hands on it paint whatever I want it to be. And I believe every planner/thinker here can relate that it is also a struggle not to get ahead on things. The planner in me for over the year saw how each of those plans went. When I welcomed the new year last year I was tired of it – planning. I hit the rock bottom in 2020 so what else is there left for me to plan for? But God has other plans and by His grace I was led to focus on one thing, MAKING BETTER DECISIONS. And how it all turned out for last year is humbling. I could never see myself making those decisions big and small if not for the grace of God and being in sync with the Holy Spirit.

And at the mark of this new year I ask myself in contemplation, should I plan or have no plan again. I want to say yes but deep down inside I know that I also don’t know how to do that anymore. Then I ask God, “Lord if this is another year that I won’t plan what is it that you want me to focus on?” And I got this word,

And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land. And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”

Joshua 8:1‭-‬2 ESV

DO NOT FEAR.

As deep as it can go, indeed our Heavenly Father knows best and what weights in our hearts. There is so much uncertainty this new year has for all of us. And personally, I am looking forward to so many things this year especially in my newfound purpose in life. I don’t know how exactly it should be nor how will it unfold and just the thought of not knowing is honestly scary. But putting my focus on the Author and Giver of life, all fears turn to faith. And that is what I’m believing for this year. In certainty and uncertainty, plans or no plans, that my only focus is Christ, and how to live out this life in 2022 is at the center of His will. Fear has lost its hold on me. I’m excited about how this year will be and how God will move in my life and the lives of the people around me. ❤