Sometimes you have to look back to be prepared to move forward. When you look at your life last year, what do you notice? What were the moments of growth? Of love? What were the hard experiences, feelings, and encounters?

Imagine now offering all of this to God. Imagine lifting it up on a great big platter, all that you experienced last year: in school, at home, with friends, in your faith, and in your doubt. This is a season of life.

While you can’t know what the coming year will bring, you do know that it is a season of possibility. Possibility to heal, to give love, to be at peace, to plant hope in the world around you. In a way, this is what Jesus was saying to the disciples: “You will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth.” You might not make it around the world, but you are in the middle of your world. Bring it! Use your experience to share with those around you in this fresh new season.

By Gina Yeager-Buckley from D365