*YEAR END REFLECTION* We are almost at the end of 2023! What a year this has been!
This week between Christmas and New Year can be a space for us to reflect on 2023 and prepare for 2024.
This week – if you have a moment – see if you can take a few minutes for a prayer of Examen over 2023. It doesn’t need to be hours of sitting with your journal and making sure not to miss anything. Just see what comes up in the space of a few minutes attention. Get into a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Feel your feet on the floor. Take a few deep breaths. Now hold 2023 that is coming to a close. As you gently hold this year with God, you may want to cup your hands as a symbolic way of “holding” 2023.
What are the moments that come to mind? Not the news headlines, but the moments of YOUR life. What have been harder, darker moments? Where was there joy? Where was there pain? What gave you life this year? What seemed to drain it away? Where might God be drawing your attention, to see something you might not have expected? Sit with whatever comes up for you. Hold it with God. Allow God to highlight things to you. Give thanks for all that He is showing you – the goods, the bads, the mundanes... God desires to be involved in every moment of your life. Are you willing to let Him take the lead? What does He want you to let go and give Him?
Now, ask God for a word for 2024. ONE WORD. Listen to what He gives you. It would be interesting at the end of 2024 to discover how that word intersected with your life.
👆🏻this is from a pastor of my friend of a group chat. I find it very good. Want to share with you all. 🙏🏻
Esther's Heart
*YEAR END REFLECTION*
We are almost at the end of 2023! What a year this has been!
This week between Christmas and New Year can be a space for us to reflect on 2023 and prepare for 2024.
This week – if you have a moment – see if you can take a few minutes for a prayer of Examen over 2023. It doesn’t need to be hours of sitting with your journal and making sure not to miss anything. Just see what comes up in the space of a few minutes attention.
Get into a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Feel your feet on the floor. Take a few deep breaths. Now hold 2023 that is coming to a close. As you gently hold this year with God, you may want to cup your hands as a symbolic way of “holding” 2023.
What are the moments that come to mind? Not the news headlines, but the moments of YOUR life.
What have been harder, darker moments? Where was there joy? Where was there pain? What gave you life this year? What seemed to drain it away?
Where might God be drawing your attention, to see something you might not have expected?
Sit with whatever comes up for you. Hold it with God. Allow God to highlight things to you.
Give thanks for all that He is showing you – the goods, the bads, the mundanes...
God desires to be involved in every moment of your life. Are you willing to let Him take the lead? What does He want you to let go and give Him?
Now, ask God for a word for 2024. ONE WORD. Listen to what He gives you. It would be interesting at the end of 2024 to discover how that word intersected with your life.
👆🏻this is from a pastor of my friend of a group chat. I find it very good. Want to share with you all. 🙏🏻
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