A Fresh Start
It’s a glorious new year!
It’s time for a fresh start!
Are you ready?!
Have you decided that you are finished once and for all with the “same-old-same-old”?
Are you ready to toss aside the disappointment of 2020 and then enthusiastically enter a new season of hope and steadfastness?
“Even if next year is just like this year, I won’t be. Even if 2021 doesn’t change, I will.” – Jackie Hill Perry
I have spent the past four decades of my life figuring out how to live a life of joy and purpose.
When depression had me by the throat … I was determined to live again.
I refused to merely survive … but I resolved to live with joy and with gusto.
“Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” – Isaiah 43:19
I knew that because I had Jesus … that I could live in a place of “new”.
I realized that regardless of the wilderness of my circumstances that I could live with God-ordained purpose.
I understood that in spite of the barrenness of the events of my life that I could splash in His joy!
I knew that I knew that I knew.
And so, in this grand year of 2021, I would like to share with you some of the principles that I have built into my life in order to live oftentimes contrary to my environment.
I’d love to share with all of you the wealth of investing my life in eternity and not in the temporary … would you like to share in the wealth?
I’d love for you to be the beneficiary of my years of emotional sweat and spiritual strengthening … would you allow me to coach you?
This year, we are offering two initiatives that will help you to embrace the abundant life for which you were made.
First of all, beginning on Monday, January 11, I will be teaching a 6-week Bible Study titled, “What Do YOU Want?”
“What Do YOU Want?” is based on the historic Old Testament book of Ruth.
Ruth was a history maker; she pushed back with compassion and with grace against horrific and undeserved circumstances. Her kindness wrote a new story for her family but the most wonderful miracle of all is that her daily choices ushered Jesus into her story … who wouldn’t want THAT?!
Please consider this your personal invitation to join me ~ and hundreds of other women from across the world ~ to go digging for gold in the book of Ruth!
You can register for “What Do YOU Want?” here.
The second initiative that we are offering is simply and aptly called “The Joy Life!”
“The Joy Life” is a membership that is delivered to your in-box on the first day of every month.
Each month you will receive a podcast that will help you to live a life of unmatched joy in the middle of your mess!
You will also be gifted with the testimony of a woman who dared to choose joy when her life was absolutely falling apart.
Included in “The Joy Life” is also a monthly blog, “How to Celebrate!” and in its words you will discover the delight of celebrating the ordinary days of your extraordinary life.
And if all of this weren’t enough … you will also receive a scripture to memorize and to share on social media, Bible Studies and the gift of either a video teaching or an e-book each month.
Wow! Who wouldn’t want all of THAT?!
You can register for “The Joy Life” here.
My life’s work is to share the abundance of wisdom, hope and peace that God has given to me over the decades of my rich life.
I hope that you will join me in an unbridled quest to live a life of so much joy that even heaven gasps in wonder!
Peter tell us that the angels long to experience the miracle of new birth and the glory of abundant life that humans have been given while living in the atmosphere of planet earth.
What an amazing thought!
The angels, who spend eternity around the throne room of God Himself long to stoop into our earthly experience and become acquainted with the miracle of abundant life and of new birth.
I pray that 2021 will be a year filled with the power of His presence and the delight of heaven.
I pray that you will know Him in His fullness and in His power as never before
And, I hope that you will join me in digging for gold on the sacred pages of Scripture … and that you will discover the joy of His presence!
Thanks for listening to my heart this week. As you know by now, my heart is truly not a perfect heart but it is a heart that is filled to overflowing with gratitude for the life I have been given and for the people who walk with me. And, it continues to be a heart that is relentlessly chasing after God and all that He is!