Monday, Jan 6, 2025 4:16 pm
Dear, 41.9 year old, [future] Joval,
What. A. Year! The Gi in JoGiNa [Joval, Georgina and Adedana] gave us the homework to write a letter thanking 2024 and blessing 2025.
I’ve been through a lot. Let me say it again– I’VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT. The operational word here is through.
I made it through because I always make it through! I am resiliency personified. As I look back at a journal entry from June 2024, I am stunned by the growth.
Tears well and fill my eyes because, holy moly, I can’t believe this is my life! This is the life God and I co-created. This year, I moved from feeling unworthy to knowing I’m worthy. Worthy to ask, worthy to receive. Worthy to rest. To speak up. To remain silent. To let others speak and advocate for me. Worthy to enjoy, worthy to be, worthy to feel.
I am the daughter of the Most High God. The God of I AM THAT I AM. And because She is, I AM, too!
I am worthy because God gives me breath. I’m worthy because God is my light, my source, my identity, my strength, my all.
At the June 2, 2024, I Will Give You Rest Silent Retreat, I wrote a list of I AM. Funny to find that only days after doing the same thing with my Heart Longings program. Again inspired to do the same.
The funny thing about being is that even when you “forget”, you still ARE!
I [still] AM. Even when I forget. Oh, the irony! This year, a client taught me her most powerful prayer– God, help me. God help me remember!
This year was one of remembering. Perhaps not exactly what I wanted to, but holistically so!
This year, I became More of You and less of me. That’s my continual prayer– may Your will and mine be one.
I see it unfolding in my work. In my desires, my hopes, my prayers, my actions and twice examining my money numbers with my financial accountability parters. I am unfolding. Blossoming, really.
This year, I grew and expanded my rest and my enjoyment. Pure love, rest, divine enjoyment, sun!
I surrender and release all that doesn’t align with God’s will for me, leaving it behind in the glory and beauty and growth that is 2024, knowing and trusting full well that this is fertilizer for what’s to come in 2025.
Untether, unblock, and unbind me, oh God, as I continue forward with grace, goodness, mercy, love, beauty, joy, ease, flow and forgiveness as I walk boldly and courageously into this new year. Thank You for new opportunity to be more and do less, trusting that more of You requires far less work than my own humanity ever could.
Thank You that this is full of risks and rewards. Of hopes, prayers and desires not only fulfilled, but exceeded.
Thank You that I have enough love, enough time, and surely enough money as I grow my income, my net worth, shrink my debt, grow my love, my family, and heal myself, my clients and continue to freely share hope as freely as I share smiles.
Thank You for all that was, that is, and that will be. Thank You God for all that wasn’t, that isn’t, and that won’t be.
In you I have hope. In You I have trust. In You I have all my needs met. Help me continue to seek You first and watch in delightful expectation as You fulfill your promises to me.
And so it is. It. Is. Done!
Buckle up for more adventures. It’s going to be a fun, beautiful ride.
