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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....
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Black Thoughts and Battling Well

My thoughts are black. Evil is the guest of my imagination. And it’s only the first day of the week.

I text her for accountability and remember what she once told me. “Sometimes, Kate, battling sin is the way we honour God in our day.”

She thinks backwards. Like all the Great People.

I’m ashamed that I need to battle. Ashamed that I need to repent.

So, I lay my weapons down as soon the Dragon enters the room.

But failure is not contact with the dragon. It’s the refusal to fight.

I want to think of it backwards like her. That temptation is an opportunity.

An opportunity to pick up the sword. And fight like one who has been bought with blood from the Ultimate Victory.

An opportunity to see the defeated Dragon. No smoke. No mirrors. No special effects.

A chance to say ‘no’ to sin.

A chance to win glory for the King.

“But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called.” 1 Timothy 6:11-12


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