2019 was a year of closing chapters and entering new seasons. It was a year for leaving behind everything that was comfortable and stepping into a season of abandonment. It was a year of many victories after hard fought battles, but also so many moments of abundant joy and contentness. As I looked back on 2019, I was able to look back knowing that I grew. It was not a year of complacency, but a time of growing and discovering the beauty in each day. As I look forward to 2020, I want to continue on in a mindset of awe for this life and live each day fully in the present. I don’t want to dwell on the past or live only for the future. I want to learn to live in the present even more to discover what the Lord has for me to learn in each day and each season. I don’t want to miss all that God has now and not be able to fully appreciate the big picture and all the details.
As I continue in this way, the word the Lord has given me over this year is Blossom. It was spoken over me during my last night in Guatemala. I was told that I was like a tree about to blossom. The Lord had been working on my roots and now it was time for me to start seeing the fruit he would produce. New Year’s Eve I was given the word blossom again. During this past season my buds had been closed, but now they would blossom again like never before. My teammates had also noticed me really stepping out and have seen the growth; the blossoming. 2020 will be a year of abundant blossoming. A year where growth and it’s produce will take place like never before. The roots the Lord has been working on will hold me steady as I step out in new ways. The race is not the best year of my life only to be followed by lesser years, but it will be a catalyst for the rest of my life. This year was not my ceiling. It will become the floor to the rest of my life. There are so many buds ready to come into full and whole blossoming. I want to embrace the newness of what is to come and not close up to the challenges ahead. I want to fully lay myself out and exposed. There is risk in vulnerability, but I choose to see the fruit and catch the light of it.
