Have you felt the pangs of sorrow? There will be a season of joy for you.
Have you hated an enemy? There will be a season of love for you.
Has a certain sin bound so tightly around your heart, suffocating you against the living word? A time is coming for you to cast away your sin that clings so closely and be renewed in spirit and truth.
Has a loved one wounded your heart, your soul? There will be a time to heal.
What has been broken can be rebuilt. The stone you have cast can be collected, gathered in humility and love. The days of seeking answers can be replaced by surrender, losing yourself in the overwhelming love of God. The war that battles within and without will be replaced with a glorious time of peace.
A new year brings hope for a new day. It is a symbol for stripping off the old to replace, we pray, with the new. A reminder that His grace is sufficient in the storms of life as much as it is sufficient in the spring days of new birth. His grace will sustain us through the seasons.
So as we set out on a new year, remember that there is a time for every matter under heaven. And because His mercies are new every morning, today is the day for a fresh start.
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Hi Leigh Ann, thank you so much for this post. I’m a little misty-eyed right now. You can read more details on my blog but I’ll try to give you the short version.
My husband is finishing up his 10th year in the military next month. We have no clue what’s going to happen next, where we will be living or working, or insurance, or paycheck, or anything, which is scary.
But there’s been a lot of bondage, hurt, anxiety, pain, and fear that has come through our time in the military, especially the last 6 years that we have been a couple. My husband hasn’t been happy in his work the entire time and it’s just been heartbreaking for me. We have struggled spiritually and emotionally to recover from 2 year-long deployments and it’s just been, well…rough.
Your opening question…every single one has been something our little new family has experienced within the last few years. And this post brought me hope that, no matter what the future holds, there are better days coming. There has to be!
You can read more about my thoughts for the new year in regard to all of this here: http://beautifulinhistime.com/2013/01/01/home-one-word-for-2013/
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I am so grateful to receive your emails! We found out last week tht my husband has recurring cancer from his lung cancer in 2010. It would be so easy to allow the enemy to fill my head with worry and lies, but you are SO correct, God’s grace is ALWAYS sufficient for anything we are facing!! God is so awesome, never leaves us and even though I don’t know the outcome of our situation, I know who does!!
What an encouraging testimony, Sherri! Thank you so much for sharing with me, and I just said a prayer for you and your husband.