Wow! Has this year flown by or what? This was a year of family blessings and gatherings and us helping each other learn more about Christ as we navigate life together. Also abundant this year were many crises and unexpected trials.

How about you? Did you have lots of highs and lows too? Do you feel grateful to have made it through 2023? I wonder what you’ve gone through and what highs and lows you experienced, as I consider my own. Through all of it, the Lord was present, persistent and perfect with me. With you too? I hope so.

So… it’s the time of year for “resolutions.” Though I am not a huge fan of them, because they focus on achieving more for ourselves, my thought here, today, is…Why can’t we make this next year all about less of us, less “resolving” and more “allowing God” to help us want what HE wants? And just what is that?

I believe God wants the simple things of us; honesty, humility, praise, obedience and most of all, love for others. So, of course, I need to write a poem to express all this. That’s just how my mind works, lol.

Resolution to My King

To dedicate this year, I take a stand

to now surrender all my dreams and plans

My feet, my hands, my body all are yours

to magnify and glorify you, Lord

So do with as You will, with all of me

and use this servant, Lord, to somehow be

a witness of Your love for everyone

a missioned servant pointing to the Son

Perfection I will never half achieve

though that’s the world’s attempt to sure deceive

Hold calm my heart and guide it Your own way

in everything I ask and do and say

For when I leave this world at Your command

I will not cry for all that I had planned

My soul will crave to know that I have tried

to spread the truth and love for which You died

Dear friends, thank you for following my little blog. It’s encouraging to me that so many want to read truth on here, to combat the lies the enemy is propagating in the world. I love you and pray for you to have a Lord-led, Lord- glorifying and healthy year!

With love from the Father to you,

Tina

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