I’ve posted a lot more than usual this week because I took some time off of work. As far as the picture I posted goes, it’s obvious I need to go to work.

I also think we can all say 2020 sucked because it did.

But that also depends on your perspective, I guess.
2020 was difficult. I lost a very close friend and someone I didn’t expect to lose so soon. It shook my faith up, but you can either use adversity to grow or to become bitter.

So, while 2020 was hard, and you can blame it all on the year 2020 like a crutch to cling to, I’d rather see it as a year of growth. I lost things, was blessed with things, and also got to witness several miracles.

“We know that all things work together for good to those who Love God and are the called according to His purpose.”

You either trust God or you don’t. It’s that simple. He’s the God in the mountains and the same God in the valleys. He’s there in the highs, and He’s there in the lows.

He promises never to leave or forsake us, and we aren’t promised a life without storms, but He is there in the middle of it all.

In case you missed my coat post: A thrift store find that taught ‘charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised’…

(Just in case that helps clear up the picture… at all??)

I don’t know what 2021 holds, but I’ve learned not to make plans! Why are we obsessed with new years and new starts when we can God wants to renew us every day? God can transform us if we let Him without all the self burnout. I’ve been so stressed out lately, clinging to uncertainty and allowing myself to focus on circumstances, and being filled with fear about the future.

My cousin was supposed to come to town this week, which is why I took time off work. She ended up with covid (she is fine, thank God!) and was unable to travel, leaving me with all this time on my hands (which I’m not sure is good or not). I made all these plans for what I could do while I was off, but what I ended up doing instead was listening to Charles Stanley sermons and walking outside in my neighborhood. A lot. That is exactly what I needed to do instead of filling my time with my plans to make me feel better about my life moving forward. Instead, I filled my time with God.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…”

Isaiah 43:18 states to forget the old for something new is springing forth. I pray to continue to draw close to Him and continue becoming ‘the new thing’.

There is so much uncertainty in the world, but this I am certain:
Jesus is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is in control and if God is for you what could stand against?

“For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.
For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” – Jeremiah 29:8-14

2020 couldn’t be that bad… after all, I was given a Brent. He makes a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
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