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Happy New Year!

by Jessica on January 1, 2011

in Living Intentionally

5And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

6And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Revelation 21:5-7

Remember that He who makes all things new has the power to make you new.

Nothing is outside His grasp.

The light of hope may seem distant, but there is hope.

While goodness may feel small, He is goodness.

Change may feel impossible, but with Him nothing is impossible.

Fear may be overwhelming, but His peace is relentless.

Let Him make you new today, this year, and every day in between.

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Naming the New Year

by Jessica on December 29, 2010

in Living Intentionally

Pursue.

I want my life to be a pursuit of something meaningful, of something more than myself, of something eternal.

I don’t want to look back and regret the days. I don’t want to reflect and realize I spent more time chasing the fleeting things of this world than the eternal. I don’t want to sit in my old age wishing I had loved my children more, enjoyed my husband more, and spoke words of truth and hope more freely.

I don’t want to have regrets.

And if my life ended now…this day, this moment, this week, I know I’d have those regrets.

Grace covers and all things are being made new, but I don’t want to take advantage of the empty days on the calendar and presume that I’ll live to see the next.

If each day is truly a gift, then let me live this day as a gift. Unwrapping and exploring the newness of it. Learning and worshiping. Growing and climbing.

This year I want to pursue the people that I say are important to me, the words that I want to describe my life, and the God who is bigger and more deserving of worship than all the rest.

My goal and my aim:

to live passionately,

to walk purposefully,

to be authentic, and

pursue Christ for all that he’s worth.

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My Confessions

by Jessica on October 20, 2009

in growth

In following with the new season, I’m coming clean. I am a sinner, saved by grace, but…oh, how I struggle.

  • I am a recovering perfectionist.
  • There are days I just want to runaway.
  • In one day I can be on the mountaintop and the next hour I can be in the pit of despair.
  • I flounder between hopeful vision to despairing and desperate.
  • I want to be accepted.
  • I wonder what people think of me…
  • And I’m afraid they won’t like me, so…
  • I try to be perfect, faultless…untouchable.
  • I’m overly insecure.
  • Food and I have a bad relationship.
  • I try to do it all…by myself.
  • Oftentimes I feel completely unaccomplished.

But…I do know the Truth and it has set me free, but more often than I’d like I live in fear not confident and willing to step out and live as and who God made me. It feels shaky. Dangerous.

If I really did the things God called me to do…if I really lived as he designed me I’d be taking huge risks! People might not like me. They could think I’m really weird.

Living free is scary.

But somewhere inside me I know it’s worth it. Even the logical side of me says it’s worth it. But still I struggle. Still I fear. Is it really worth the risk?

But I know it is. I know it is.

by Reza Vaziri

Why? Because God is good and God is real and God is worth it.

What I’m talking about isn’t just the regular things we contribute to living as Christ-followers, like prayer, evangelism, living pure and holy lives, etc. All those things are a must and fuel this, but what is scary for me are those specific things God has called me to do…that He has spoken over my life. To be the woman God has designed me is scary.

Why?

It requires huge vulnerability. An openness that cares nothing for the approval and opinion of man. A purpose that is unswerving. A vision that stays focused. A fight that trudges on through the heaviest battle.

I have been an epic failure in those things. The number one reason why? Most of my life I’ve walked in my own strength and power—which is laughable in contrast to our Mighty God.

But I want to live free. I want to be unbound by fear…to live without the burden of perfection. To accomplish God’s purposes in His power and grace. No more perfection. No more independence. No more fear.

This is a new season.

And this is who I am.

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