Happy New Year! 2025 has arrived and it’s shocking to say that we are finally here. I am glad, though. The end of 2023 and the entirety of 2024 dealt with lots of uprooting in our family which did not come easy at all. At the very end of 2023, we moved out of our house as we prepared it to be sold and about 2 weeks later, we found out we were pregnant with our fourth child. All while we were dealing with the sale of the house, the pregnancy, and trying to adjust to living with family again, we were also dealing with lots of changes in our spiritual life.
If I’m honest, the term uproot is a very vague way of describing what this past year felt like. There was a lot of heartbreak, loneliness, isolation… But even in our lowest moments, there was joy in knowing that God was with us. When I say that 2024 was a year of lots of uprooting, I mean it. Not only did we uproot from the house/neighborhood that we had lived in for almost 6 years, but we were also uprooting from the church we had served in for the last 5 years. It felt like everything was being removed from us from the very root only to be planted elsewhere, in a new season. I think this is why I’m so ready for 2025!
This new year is one I want to make extra special. Not because of anything else but the very fact that I am so ready to walk into the newness that God has for us. I’m ready to let go of the past and move forward in so many areas of my life. Will it be easy? Absolutely not! But I’m determined to not give up, to push harder each and every day in those areas of my life I want to improve in until I’m completely walking in God’s newness. This is the very reason I choice the focus word of the year that I did.
Word of the Year
Choosing a focus word for 2025 did not come easy. But, after prayer and reflected on the previous year, I finally settled on:
Tenacity
(n) the ability to keep doing something difficult or the determination to continue doing what you are doing; the quality of being determined to continue doing something, especially when faced with obstacles.
Why I chose this word:
Despite surviving 2024 (lol), there were plenty of moments where I wanted to throw in the towel. It was a very hard year for me emotionally and spiritually and honestly, it’s by the grace of God that I did not go crazy (true transparency). Moving into 2025, I want to make sure that I do not give up on anything I set my mind to, regardless of the circumstances that arise. That means, I have to stay is consistent prayer so that my thoughts and intentions are always aligned with the Father’s. Seeking God in everything I do; we do as family, has to be the priority above all. And after that, I need to give every area of my life my all.
Goals and Intentions
Spiritual
- Build a daily life of prayer, devotion and worship
- Focus on daily gratitude
- In depth Bible studies at least 3x a week
- Serve at least once a month in community outreach at my local church
- Plug into a small group at church
- I would like to start a prayer group where once a month a group of fellow wives gather together in my house to pray on a certain topic and fellowship together
- Become active members at our new home church (more to come on this topic)
Scripture to focus on: 2 Peter 3:18 NKJV- “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen”
Health
- Work on getting into a consistent routine/rhythm of physical activity; 3x a week would be ideal for me
- Drink more water every day
- Prioritize my mental health with some sort of self-care
- Log off of social media for an entire 24 hours at least 3x a week
Scripture to focus on: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NKJV – “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
Marriage
- Be intentional on a daily basis with showing my husband more attention
- Marriage meeting every other month or so to check-in on where we’re at in our marriage and discuss anything we’d like to work on
- Monthly date nights, even if its at home after the kids have gone to bed
- Nightly prayer and devotional as a couple
Scripture to focus on: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NKJV – “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”
Motherhood
- Be more present during the day (less phone time)
- Have deep meaningful conversations with each of the kids, especially the oldest, every night before bed
- Prioritize better food choices for the kids
- Curate a good daily routine/rhythm that will help the kids exercise more independence
- Have a mommy and me date once a month with each of the kids
Scripture to focus on: Proverbs 31:26 NKJV – “She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness.”
What are some goals and intentions you will be focusing on in 2025?
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