DEAR ME, 2025 ?

 

Take a deep breath with me, release everything before we carry on.

This photo looks like a new year. I took it exactly three years ago today yet me choosing it was not something I planned prior, can you imagine!... Just look at that clear blue sky and the brick tone with a touch of greenery. It's so fresh and smells like a new beginning to me.

But let's talk about that familiar feeling when it's time to go back to school (or work, depends). When you're looking at your bedroom, the backyard, and everything back at home one last time as you say your goodbyes. 

"Bye sofa, bye bed, bye kitchen window view, bye trees from the neighbour's compound... I'm gonna miss you."

That last evening outside, smelling the cool fresh air at home... mahn I wish this could last forever! But wait, I really don't . There's more out there. A lot to experience, many more horizons to pursue. I know you haven't really studied for exams yet, it's prolly what's fogging up your mind right now. But just breathe first, relax, it's not the whole of the year. It'll all be alright. The world isn't responsible for calming you down in such situations, that's why it'll mostly make you feel horrible for not being prepared yet. 

I want you to know that you have peace within you even when there's a hurricane around you, or it's just a windy day. And you'll do great in all the papers. And they'll soon pass and after that will come more highs and lows for the year. Face them with boldness, have no anxiety (Phil. 4:6-7). 

Oh God, I received Your mail. I accept this wonderful invitation to truly know you this year. Not only to experience Your abiding love for me, but also allow You to experience my undying love for You. Lip service aside. O God, it's You I want this year, more than anything. More than gold, money, status, that iPhone and all the things on my bucket list for 2025. How I desire to walk with You, to have meaningful conversations with you that are about You... I know You are Almighty and there's nothing You cannot do. But more than anything my hunger is to know You for who You are. Please take me deeper into You. Purify my heart for this journey. May this be a year of seeking You with all my heart and finding You. To know You and make You known. I'm not even so keen on my assignments on earth, for I understand that my first assignment is to know You. My purpose and works aren't worth much if I don't know the King I'm serving/ working for. So I write this letter back to You. To the life in my bones, the breath in my lungs. To I AM. 

                                                                                          ~ To the One my heart beats for.

So dear me (me can be you too), happy 2025! Live for God, in every breath, in every move, in every conversation, in every joy and even in the pain, in every achievement and 'failure', tear or laughter, in resting or in  working, in sickness and in health. To behold Him as your King. On the good days, and the bad... in the highlands and the heartache all the same. 

Reminds me of a song...

Go on, take the step into this new year.  A lot awaits... 

Love, Serene Steph.