New Year 2020 and Resolutions

We are less than 3 hours away from 2020 and I cannot believe it. I like to take this time to reflect on the past year. On my way home from being at my parents, I did a lot of reflecting. I got into the car and was driving and I decided to change the Sirius XM stations that I had entered into my radio. I had changed almost all of them to the holiday channels and I was changing them back to the regular stations. When an old familiar song came on, “Unanswered Prayers” by Garth Brooks. This song brought tears to my eyes and began my time of reflection on 2019.

There is a meme going around that 2018 was full of heartache, 2019 was full of lessons and 2020 is going to be full of joy, and I truly believe this. 2018 was one of the worst years I have ever experienced. I had things happen to me that I never in a million years thought I would experience and one day, I will share more about these things, but for now, just know it was not a good year.

2019 was not a bad year really, but I had a lot to learn during this year. There were a lot of lessons for me to learn in this year, and I finally feel like I learned them, well, most of them, and I can move into the new year.

When scrolling Facebook this evening, I saw a lot of people talk about how great their 2019 was and how they just cannot even imagine what 2020 holds. There are those of us who cannot wait to say that next year. We cannot wait for the changes of this year and the good things that will happen. We have seen enough heartache and had to learn enough lessons and to be honest, we are ready for the joy!

Now, I know enough that you need to find joy in your circumstances and have a positive attitude and all of that. I also know that trying situations can still happen. However, when you have been knocked down a great deal, you want the joy to outweigh the trials. You want to have more smiles than tears.

So as I sit here and write this post and try to stay up until midnight, I am doing some reflecting. I am reflecting on the lessons and I am smiling. I am smiling because that is what I want to do in the coming year a whole lot. I want to smile and I want less tears and less stresses. This is the year. This is the year for the “yes” answers to prayers. This is the year the smiles don’t stop. This is the year that I don’t want to end. And you know what? Everyone is entitled to a year like this. So while it can be easy to envy those that speak so highly of their year, just know that there are cycles and maybe, just maybe, it is time for a good cycle to come into your life.

As I close out this post, I leave 2019. I leave the lessons and I smile. I smile for the new year and the new things it has in store for me. To all of my friends that had a lesson year, get ready for smiles, because this is YOUR year!!!!

Isaiah 43:19 “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

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