I have been consistent about setting a vision or theme for each year since I hit 30.I’m currently 39. I learned in my 20s that making many resolutions just doesn’t work for me. I make a long list and then I forget about it as soon as life does what life does. Yet, I firmly believe in vision, direction, and intention. Setting a vision is more than popular culture or modern spirituality. It is also biblical.
Enter my annual reference to this particular bible verse:
“Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 NKJV
I have found that setting a theme for the year is something I can stay true to. It’s a promise to myself I can actually keep. A promise to make decisions that are aligned with the vision in every area. That’s all. 2021’s theme was “Be Still and Know.” This was one of the more difficult themes I have ever set for myself. 2021 was, consequently, a necessary but painful growth experience. I’m sure there is something about it here somewhere. 2022 was Year of Yes (Book Reference: Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes). I had uprooted a lot of old and new and saying yes scattered new seeds. 2023 was Rooting my Touch Tree (Book Reference: Untamed by Glennon Doyle). The seeds were planted and many. Which would be the ones to tend and keep while they took root. 2024 was Big Magic (Book Reference: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert)—the beginning of learning to reach for more. Learning to thrive, learning to step out despite fear. We are reviewing the meaning of this last one before I tell you what the 2025 one is next week or the week after.
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