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January 2026
IT'S 2026!!!
We made it!!! So excited for a new year, clean slate and a fresh start! We sent 2025 packing with the best memories, moments and so many glows, while fully ready for all that God has for us in 2026!
I absolutely love New Years! I love the opportunity to start fresh, reinvent, do better, be healthier, live bigger, dream wild, literally anything and everything. And you know what I love even more - we can do this anytime, any hour, any day, any week, any month - we don't need a new year to do any of this. I have been thinking about how we are so conditioned to think we have to wait on some sort of perfect timing or certain time and none of that holds true. We can change anything we dislike about ourselves or our circumstances right now. Every moment is the perfect moment. Think about this, whenever you start doing something new or different to improve yourself - you are beating every single person that is still thinking about when they are going to start or waiting for the perfect time - so get going! Doesn't matter if things aren't perfectly aligned or you wish you had such and such - just start! You can always fine tune the process, but you have to start - speed wins every time.
I love this. Our lives right now are a reflection of our past choices. That's humbling but also amazing - because with different choices of what we don't like - we can immediately begin to change what our lives look like. Even if we start with just the smallest choice, those choices typically lead to the next better choice and then the next, and then those compound exponentially. If we are able to consistently stack our good choices, life will start looking wildly different in a very short time. We always overestimate what we can do in 10 years and underestimate what we can do in 1 month, 6 months or 1 year. Consistent, daily wins over time become entire life changes. Let's break this down - movement is life right? Where the water flows, life grows. Movement is the key to longevity. What if you decided to get in 10k steps per day: the current average 6k. To add 4k more, in 10 hours, which we are all up and at it for much longer, but we will say 10 hours - that breaks down to only an extra 400 steps in an hour. Park in the far away parking spot, take the stairs, take the long way around - there are so many tiny tweaks that if we do them every single day - we will have a monumental life change in just one short year! 6k steps a day equals 2.19 million for the year but 10k steps per day equals 3.65 million for the year!
How different would our lives look this time next year if we chose to win one day at a time? And then the next day and the next after that? It's like they say, we eat an elephant one bite at a time. We win our lives, one day at a time. The big picture is fun, inspiring and so worth dreaming crazy big dreams of the life we want, but the only way to get there is one day at a time.
God tells us in Matthew 6:34 to not worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will worry about itself. How much hope does that give us - just today, make decisions for yourself and your family today that will give you the best life that God has for you. Today only. Let's win today. And then let's do it again tomorrow. And the next day. The momentum will compound, our dreams will become our new reality, which means then we get to dream even bigger dreams.
Y'all God has so much more for us than just struggling through each day. He wants us owning our thoughts and actions and living bold victorious lives, for we are more than conquerors through Christ's love for us. It's about time we started living like it. What if this year really was different? Already broken some resolutions? Who cares, start right now, with just today. We got this - let's be victorious this year - everything we want is just waiting for us - let's get after it!!!
February 2026
Happy all things pink, red, hearts and love!!! I just love all of these things, so even though I am really not big on Valentine's Day (unless it's a headless bear, then I'm all in - ask me at your appointment for this story heehee) but I still think love is the best thing ever and should always be celebrated!
Y'all it is officially busy season and we LOVE it - thank youuu!
I have been navigating busy schedules, taking on learning some new things with all of my normal life responsibilities and it is testing me. I feel like I am constantly rushing, never accomplishing and just chasing. In this constant rushed chaos, I can absolutely tell you I haven't noticed anyone else, or how I can serve them, just been focused on myself. And then what really got me thinking, as I was chit-chatting with new client that had just moved here from the South (which we all know is God's favorite region in the world), she was talking about what a big adjustment it's been because of how rude and road ragey people are, even when she has her kids in the car. She said she just wasn't used to any of that and the constant rushing and rudeness. Y'all. I immediately thought, good gracious that could have been me at any point in my chaos.
It really got me thinking - do we really pay attention to others, ever, or are we just so consumed with ourselves and what we have going on that we have completely lost sight of what God created us for: to live for Him and grow His Kingdom by loving His people.
Oh the conviction!!! If I had run into anyone in these bouts of my chaotic schedule, y'all would have never seen Jesus in me. Very likely the total opposite. Just me, all about me, where I needed to go, how quickly I needed to get there, what I was concerned with once I got there - I, I, I. Woof. Not at all what God has for me or you.
There is zero fulfillment in being crazy busy, focusing on ourselves, not serving others and worst of all, being rude in the midst of it. After I slowed down long enough to recognize this, I firstly asked for forgiveness and then sought some of God's words to remind me that His ways are greater and only there will we find true peace, not in whatever we are so crazily chasing. So here are 5 quick reminders for us when we're drifting back to that self-serving mindset:
Philippians 2:4 - Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others
Galations 5:13 - . . . serve one another humbly in love
I John 3:18 - Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth
Galations 6:2 - Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ
Hebrews 13:16 - Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God
This is the best kind of conviction - the kind that reminds us that we serve a God who loves us and has chosen us, flawed and road ragey as we are, to show His love to others. This is no small assignment but a huge privilege for us - let's start putting ourselves on the backburner and lifting others up. I have never once regretted serving someone or showing kindness. If we all start, even with something as small as holding a door for each other or letting someone in front of us on I-95 (y'all interstate driver are terrifying - take it down a notch), we will start making service to others common which has a double win - we begin to live in a kinder, more service focused culture AND God is glorified!!!
So here we have it loves - a little encouragement from God's word, a little humbling of ourselves, a little Southern etiquette, a little less crazy from all of us and a whole lot of Jesus!!!
March 2026
Spring signals a fresh start, a reset, a cleaning out of the old and a bringing in of the new. One of my favorite things is dropping anything that isn't making you better and picking up what is life building. In like a lion, out like a lamb!
The shift of seasons has really had me thinking about where we are in our lives, and what God has for us in His plans for our lives. In one of my devotionals they were doing the story of Daniel, not the Daniel and the lion's den story, but Daniel's life AFTER the lion's den. I'm going to walk y'all through this because I didn't know it and it was so encouraging to me and also a super cool bit of history.
So what did happen to Daniel after God's display of power and favor over Daniel in the lion's den? I think I always thought that after Daniel walked out of the lion's den, he was also set free from his captivity in Babylon. Nope. Daniel remained in captivity until his death. He showed immeasurable faith and trust in God, while already in captivity, took an incredibly bold stand for God, was willing to die for his faith in God, and while God rescued him from the immediate danger of the lion's den, the overall issue of being in captivity never changed. Of course my first thought is for heaven's sake can this guy just have his lifelong prayer of freedom answered, what more does he have to prove? But then I started thinking - he was in captivity but was appointed to higher postitions than some of the people of the land. First thing - Daniel worked with integrity and excellence to such a high degree that even his captors took notice. Second thing - Daniel didn't waiver in his faith in God's plan over his own, even though I'm sure lifelong captivity wasn't on Daniel's vision board - but his obedience produced God's favor. I know being held captive for life doesn't sound like favor, but let's go a litttle deeper. He was so respected by the king that other officials were jealous of him - that is God's favor. He came out of a lion's den without one single scratch on him - that is God's favor. He was one of the top three administrators over the entire kingdom - that is God's favor. Daniel 6:28 says that "Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian". All of this happened while in captivity. This is just so wild to think about - he was a literal slave his entire life, but because he so deeply trusted God, he was experiencing greater than he would have if he had been living free.
But here's where the coolest part occurs: Daniel was also placed over the class of scholars that would later on be called the Magi. During his time in captivity Daniel wrote several major prophecies about the coming Messiah and these prophecies circulated for centuries. The Magi, better known as the Wise Men, came from the East—Babylon and Persia—the exact regions where Daniel lived and counseled centuries earlier. Y'all. Do you see the magnitude of this? Daniel's obedeince to God in the bleakest of circumstances, lived his entire life in captivity, recorded the prophecies of the coming King Jesus that would direct the Wise Men to worship the Messiah's coming almost 600 years later!?! This is insane to connect the dots. Daniel was probably praying daily for freedom but God had so much more for him. He woke up every single day a slave, but daily chose to work to the best of his ability - working for God and not his captors - trusting God's plan over his own desires. So incredible and humbling all at once. And so encouraging. While we might not be getting the answers to our prayers or seeing no change in our circumstances, what if we just kept moving forward with excellence and a God-focused mindset, truly basking in His will over everything?
It reminds me of John 13:7: "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."" The absolute peace that this brings in each and every circumstance. Jesus loves us so much - everything He is doing, even when we can't see it, is for our good and His glory. When things aren't going at all in our chosen direction, just remember Daniel: captive - still faithful, betrayed - still faithful, sent to die - still faithful, a lifelong unanswered prayer—still faithful, leading and teaching the very people that were holding him captive - still faithful. Daniel's faithfulness allowed him to be a part of the greatest gift the world will ever know AND to have an entire book in the most read, most translated and most distributed book in human history. Stay the course - we never know what story God is writing for us!!!