01/02/2026
Last night, I went downstairs to ask my 15 year old son if he wanted to watch a movie with Dad and I, and what I found inspired me and I wanted to share it with you:
Not but a few hours earlier, I had been asked what my resolutions or my goals were for this new year. And out of sheer Christmas season exhaustion, I blurted out, “I’m good. I don’t have any new goals. I’m content with where things are headed.”
Well, that kind of put the kibosh on that conversation. But as I later stood in front of my son, sitting at his desk, writing down his 3 life goals and 3 business goals, I felt proud and humbled at the same time.
This was a practice we encouraged our kids to do years earlier. For some it stuck. Him? Absolutely! And he is well on his way to becoming a virtuous business man & entrepreneur.
Me? Evidently, not so much.
…Until today.
As the sun rose amid a clear blue sky (we don’t get those often here in MN), I was reminded that “His mercies are new every morning.” Lamentations 3:22-23
NEW…
Each day, I have an opportunity to choose to stay comfortable with where I am, or to grow. Well, I want to grow. And I know God IS growing me, but I also know (through experience) that that happens best when I have a willing heart. I WANT to be willing I CHOSE to be willing!
“And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.” Revelation 21:5
“Behold, I make all things new…”
My dad showed me at Christmas time how to use the Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to look up words in the original Hebrew or Greek to help with my study of scripture.
So I looked up “behold” in the Greek is “idou,” an imperative meaning Lo! See!
My blasei attitude of not having any goals or new challenges to work toward needed to go. God is at work in my life and I want to SEE it! I want to be an active participant in all that He has for me because I know his words are true. And He is faithful!
Throughout motherhood, God has used these kiddos of mine to shape and mold me, to refine me. And here again, in a brand new year, it’s no different.
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