New Beginnings - Becoming

With new beginnings our slate is clean, we get to start afresh and new. Maybe this is why we are so drawn to setting new resolutions or goals for our lives each new year. What we want to do and accomplish for the year. I want to challenge to think about setting a resolution or goal in your being.

Who do you want to be in 2025? Who do you want to be in this season of life you currently find yourself?

How do you want to be known for this year? This season?

Being known is woven into our DNA wiring by our Creator. It brings connection, intimacy (in-to-me-you-see), safety, and security. It is being face-to-face, which is presence that creates a secure attachment.

Psalm 139: 1-18 speaks beautifully of how intimately known we are by God our Creator. How God was gazing on us, delighting in us. He has examined and searched us until He knows us completely. He knows everything about us our thoughts and our movements. He is familiar with all our ways. He knows what we will say before we even say it. He encircles us and His hand is on us. There is no where we can go that the Lord is not there. He created us. He knit us together. Our frames were not hidden from Him as we were being woven together by His hands. His eyes saw us, our unformed bodies. He ordained all our days and wrote them down in His book before one day came to be. His thoughts about us are vast and precious. Our Creator God knows us deeply and intimately (in-to-me-you-see). We are known, truly known.

What steps are you taking to be known? By God? By Others?

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October Newsletter

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