Well I’ve smacked a bow on it and called it a Christmas! I’m ready for the decorations to come down and the clutter to be put away. It’s not that I dislike Christmas, but it felt so busy this year and the girls are even exhausted. And isn’t there something to be said about looking at a blank canvas of a new year? I know I personally love the smell and feel of new planners!

Dayspring does a quiz each year that tells you what your word of the new year should be…mine apparently should be “Delight”. Google tells me that the best definition is: “a high degree of gratification or pleasure: joy” A biblical definition is sometimes “to bend”, but also a “feeling of great pleasure”. 

I truly hope that 2025 is a year that I can delight in. I hope to delight in the Lord. I hope that my marriage can reflect that, my relationship with my kiddos, what I participate in, how I act at work…all of it. I hope that the Lord can delight in me as well. And that’s really where I feel like my heart is. Not that I’m grumbling and done with Christmas. I’m ready for the next thing. I’m ready to close a chapter that honestly in the last 6 months has had some heart ache only He can heal. He is in that process and will, but Delight is so much better. 

Delight…I delight in the little things of life. My kids ache to be with me and just be near me. And that’s how we need to be with Him. hopefully 2025 is that way.

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