I am claiming 2024 to be the year of rest, renewal, and revival.
2020, a year of pause.
2021, a year of loss.
2022, a year of rebirth.
2023, a year of waiting.
2024, a year of revival.
It is wild to see how 4 years has passed in a blink of an eye and so much has changed. But I am reminded that was has gotten me through every shift in season was the simple act of holding onto God’s hand when I felt like I could not see.
There were many times that I was living life so blind and unanswerable questions bombarded my thought life:
2020: When is this pandemic going to end?
2021: Will my father in law live?
2022: Will I be a good mother?
2023: Could I be more than my job?
2024: What does it look like for God to revive areas in me that I have given up on?
Every question I have asked for every year that has passed only nudged me closer to my Way Maker, my beginning and my end, my Beloved, the Great I am, my Good Shepherd.
My church has encouraged everyone to a 60 day intentional pursuit of God’s heart through prayer, fasting, genuine engagement in our Sunday gatherings and weekly bible studies, and tithing, and it has allowed me to enter into 2024 with clarity of the simplicity that if I go and pursue God’s heart, I have His hand which holds my future, my way out, my provision, my peace, my next open door, my next breath.
It is not about the performance or perfection; it is about the simple pursuit of God’s heart.
At the end of the day, whatever I face this year and the years to come, I know I am safest holding the hand of the God that holds my world together.