365 Days Will be Gone at Midnight: Sheers to a Year of Lessons Learned Sheers to a Year of Healing and New Hope
As the final day of the year unfolds, we pause to reflect on the 365 days that have shaped us. Each moment, whether joyful or painful, has played its part in weaving the tapestry of this year. For some, the weight of this journey has felt overwhelming—a year marked by losses, transitions, or unexpected trials. For others, it has been a season of growth, of quiet or very loud victories, and of learning to trust the process of stretching and living beyond our comfort zones.
Wherever you find yourself, one truth remains: You made it!
Every sunrise you faced this year, whether with courage or trembling, was a testament to your resilience. Every sunset was a reminder that you made it through another day. Each tear you cried, each prayer you whispered, each shout of joy, and each moment you held on when it would have been easier to let go, speaks to a strength you may not have known you possessed.
This year may have stripped you of things you thought you couldn’t live without. Perhaps it brought you face to face with challenges that felt too big to bear, mountains too high to climb. But as we stand on the threshold of a New Year, we can also see the beauty in what remains: the lessons learned, the love that carried you through, and the hope that refuses to be extinguished. You are light! You are so brave, so courageous, you chose love, peace, forgiveness, servitude, and courage.
If you find yourself hurting for anything that may have been done to you, if you’ve been wronged and others didn’t accept accountability—I encourage to keep moving ahead. Keep choosing forgiveness and love.
Healing is not a destination we reach by the end of a calendar year; it’s a journey—a process that unfolds in God’s perfect timing; through the process of refinement and the willing to keep moving forward.
Sometimes it comes in dramatic breakthroughs; other times, it’s found in the quiet reassurance that tomorrow is a new day with new mercies. You have endured hardships that were meant to take you down, and you’ve learned lessons to help others along the way.
As you step into 2025, carry this truth with you: nothing about this past year is wasted. Even in the most broken places of your story, there is redemption. The things you thought would destroy you or your loved ones have shaped you into someone stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.
We always learn something from life. Let this be the year you release what no longer serves you—the pain, the bitterness, the comparisons, the weight of trying to do it all—leave it all in 2024.
Embrace the freedom of living in the present and trusting God with the future that 2025 has in store for you.
The next 365 days are unwritten by man although God knows every page of that story. Trust the author. This New Year is full of possibility and promise that will unfold.
Whatever lies ahead, know this: You are not alone on this journey, and there is New Hope waiting for you in every step.
So as the clock strikes midnight give praise and shouts of victory. Step forward in faith, knowing that 2025 is not just another year but a new chapter where inner strength, healing, provisions, restoration, joy, and new hope are yours to claim.
Here’s to a new beginning, one day at a time.
You did it, you can do more, YOU ARE MORE, THERE’s MORE WITHIN YOU!
With all my love in Christ,
Denise K 🤍
©️2024 Denise Kilby New Hope MHCLC Assoc. All rights reserved.
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