Together is Better

Welcome to 2020!

Hey, did you make a Bucket List for this year? We used to call them “resolutions” until we all realized that making them doesn’t mean keeping them. Bucket List’s sound a lot less rigid and, well, less resolute.

I’ve notoriously made lists all my life. Each year I would watch my hand glide across beautiful notepaper, my favorite pen making faint scratchy sounds as I etched tomorrows permanently in ink.

Here’s one of my list’s I found lurking on an old blog…

2013 Top 20 Happiness List

As you can see there was an element of fun as well as seriousness but all of it was a reflection of where I was, at that moment in time. I know you’re wondering how many things I was able to cross off that list…you’ll have to guess!

The reality is, the ink has dried or a new page has been written and most of the items on my never-ending lists have not been completed. Too many things, not enough time, too little resolution.

So, I’ve learned my lesson and my list this year is pretty small but broad. Open to interpretation some would say. I say flexible.

My Bucket List for 2020 is this: to invite you into my world. My devotional world. My journal.

Last year I practiced blogging after a hiatus of many years and found that I love it as much as ever. I love connecting with you around the Word of God. I love reading the Word and applying it to my life and then sharing that with you. I love your insights and comments, your encouragements and most of all your soul-searching as you join me.

Each morning as I sit with my coffee, my Bible and my journal I think of you and wish that I could reach out and hug each one of you. I wish we could read the scripture together and get shivers as we recognize God at work in our lives. I wish we could talk about situations and circumstances that the Lord has allowed in our lives that demanded everything from us but then gave us himself in return.

Then I realized…together is better! I don’t need to wish. I need to do. I need to invite you in to the private spaces of my journal so that you know you’re not alone. So that you understand we’re in this together and that you have a friend you can count on!

I am no theologian but I can promise you that I want truth. I want life. I want peace. More than anything, I want Jesus. If you want that too let’s sit for a few moments each week and open the Word together. My uncut, unfiltered devotional time is open to you, will you join me?

Can I ask one thing? Bring your Bible and your journal and let’s sit in the presence of the Lord together this coming year.

Much love xo

Rhonda