Day: January 1, 2020

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Plans, plans, plans!

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A new year.

For me this usually means a long list of plans and goals til I get exhausted just by thinking of them.

There’s a lot that I want to do and sometimes I get overwhelmed with the fact that I may not be able to accomplish all the things I have been dreaming about.

Lately, God has been speaking this into my heart

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

Proverbs 19:21

If I don’t have faith and take it one step at a time, I am going to drown.

Today, I am making a choice to sit back and relax, to do the best I can with what I have.

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January 1: Unopened

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Curiosity is sparked when something is closed, locked, turned away, unavailable.

Questions of, “What is it? What if?” flood your mind ’til the curiosity peeks at the highest level and your thoughts are consumed.

On the other side of the spectrum, closed off people are usually met with either intrigue or annoyance.

Intrigue, for those who love a mystery. Annoyance, for those who want to know it all.

Unopened.

Like the jar of a blueberry jam sold at a grocery shop.

Your Dad’s old treasure box with the padlock hanging on.

A coffin.

A heart.

A book that has sat on the shelf for a long time.

A restaurant at 12 midnight.

Some things you shut with a purpose, others get broken and have no choice but to close.

When you force yourself through, the strikes of resistance will slap you in the face.

It’s harder to let things be especially with closed things and people.

But maybe that’s what we need the most, to trust that what’s inside the unopened will find its way out when the right time comes.