2015
I love the first few days of the new year so much.
Everything is brimming with possibility and ideas are growing from the heart, abundant.
These are the sacred moments when we put the past in the past and take that brave step forward.
Life is changing and so are we and there is magic in our bones.
Something magical happens when the human soul is stirred
and the heart beats wild with passion.
I usually make long lists of new years resolutions, thinking about all of the things that I want to do and the places that I would like to go in the year that comes. But this year, I feel something different. Something that seems more like resting than striving and more like becoming than being.
2014 brought the hard questions. The soul searching, staying up late into the night, talking it out. The realization that beauty for ashes is the most beautiful gift. It was the year that we moved to South America and the year that I became a mommy. It was the year that was full of tears and soul searching. It was the year that was bursting with promises and joy. So much happened this year, and for each moment I am thankful. It’s easy to be thankful for the good but I am also learning to appreciate the bad things, the sad things, the hard things. Because each of those things has been a part of this journey, of this year that has changed me and molded me and given me so much.
In 2014 I learned to let myself feel and feel deeply. Joy, sadness, passion, pain. It is all meant to be felt and the thing that matters is how you react to it, how you channel it, how you let it change you. Those are the things that make our stories sweet, our lives unforgettable. There is an incredible ability within each one of us to triumph. To make it. To let our hearts win. To really love without limits. Who we really are, if we let ourselves live fully alive, is absolutely miraculous. You have miraculous possibility hidden within you, don’t ever forget that.
Something has shifted in the atmosphere this week. Can you feel it?
It’s an invitation, a promise to make all things new. All I can feel is hope. My head and heart are filled with dreams and I keep thinking about how wonderfully we were created, to be the dreamers, the thinkers, the creative creators. There is nothing that our Father wouldn’t give us, no part of his heart that He wouldn’t show us if we would only ask.
Your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!
-Matthew 6:8
I can’t stop thinking about this. That God knows us so deeply, so perfectly. The only response in my heart is to rest. To rest in Him. To sit at His feet and to let it all sink in, to let love pour over me and shine out from within me. Because you see, we were created for this love. To be ravished by it, captivated by it. Our hearts were meant to be filled to overflowing and to pour out everywhere that we go and to everyone that we meet!
In 2015, all I want is to love well and be loved well. That is my one and only resolution, because I know that everything else will come flowing from that love. A heart filled with love is a powerful thing. There is nothing more beautiful that the out-pour of real, beautiful love.
I encourage you to rise. Rise to this occasion. To this new beginning, this fresh start, this brand new year. There is nothing that you cannot do when you put your mind to it. There is nothing that cannot be overcome with God by your side. Let this be the year that we learn how to rest in love and let love overflow.
I have such deep hopes for us this year. Hope that we will love each other more, that we will be brave, that we will stand up and stand out. Hope that we will accomplish the goals, reach for the dreams no matter how crazy they may seem. Hope that we will look in the mirror and really see the person looking back at us, a beloved child of God. Hope that we will not waste a single moment, and that we will learn to live fully alive, because this life is achingly beautiful.
Know this, dear one. You are valuable, beyond comprehension, beyond measure. You are treasured and cherished and beloved. This new year feels beautiful. There are so many dreams and ideas and hopes and it makes the atmosphere electric, the world blooms with endless possibility. And all the while our Creator is calling us to arise, rise like the sun, shine on the world around us. We are the light. We spread the love. We are the beautiful ones.
