Wrapping it up…
Ladies and gentlemen, all too soon we are closing down the curtains on 2024 and raising the curtains to 2025. How has your year been? Good I hope. Earlier today at church the preacher said “even if you failed in 2024, it is all in the past now”. And so I am glad to be on the other side of all the disappointments and losses of 2024.
If you’ve been keeping up with me, you know how I started my year and the challenges I faced therein. In case you missed that post, then tap this link to go read it https://yarhsjournal.com/the-barest-minimum/. For someone who started the year with so much hope and anticipation, I never could have imagined the things that I had to go through this year. Contrary to 2024, and because of just how the year played out, I am approaching 2025 with a lot of sobriety. For 2024, I had hopeful expectations because there were specific things I was working on that I was just so sure would go right only for things to go south last minute. I saw a video on TikTok where a lady said that 2025 is her year of letting God be God and I’m certainly on board the train.
My 2025 vision board is a blank canvas looking to God (the artist) to do what he does best. Even the plans I have in mind and things I want to achieve have all been surrounded to God to adjust as He pleases because if there is anything all my losses in 2024 have taught me, it is that I cannot manipulate God into doing what I want.
My desire is to grow in three areas of my life; spiritually, personally and financially. I was on a phone call with a friend some days back and I was telling him about how I’m approaching 2025 with no “big plans” and just looking to see what God has for me. My attitude was more of someone who was disconnected and my speech lacked hope/faith but his response actually gave me my word for 2025, which is “impact”. He reminded me that what mattered was not the “big plans”, but rather the impact of whatever I do no matter how little. He reminded me of all the things that were going right in my life and the “small plans” I have made to even get better in 2025 and so with that renewed perspective, I am looking forward to an impactful 2025.
Each year we make new resolutions and usually the year has its own mind but I pray, my dear friends, that we never run out of the strength to start again. The losses, disappointments and failures of 2024 are all in the past and so long as we have life, we will always have hope . Our best years are ahead of us and by the grace of God “we shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living”.
May the Lord guide you and keep you, may He bless you in your daily endeavors. May your homes be filled with joy and peace, may He prosper and flourish the works of your hands. May He hear and answer the prayers your hearts whisper. And for whatever challenges, trials and tribulations you may face in 2025, may the good Lord strengthen you through it all.
To an impactful 2025…
Always and forever your favorite girl…
XOXO
Yarh.