F O U N D

 Looking back over the last year I can clearly see God's unlimited power. Every year I choose a word for the new year. Often times, it simply just comes to me, or I know I really need it. This time around, I'm still trying to piece it together.

Friends, it's been a ridiculous year. Half of it spent with all women. Half of it spent with all guys. I literally just laughed out loud realizing that fact. Half of it spent out of state, half of it spent at home (but really not having the time to enjoy my home). Half of it was so consistent, pressing in, having free time, making new friends. The other half not at all routine, leaning in because I was tired and couldn't press, little free time, and a challenge on relationships. I have learned so much, changed a lot, I know this last year will impact the years to come.

I wanted to speak into this next year, for God to speak into the coming seasons. But I couldn't find the word. And yet it was simply found- and that's what it is, FOUND.

I honestly kept hoping another word would come. One I could define a little better, one I could write about more eloquently. But here it remains. I'm not sure what it is about it, yet something about it has sunk deep. Perhaps it just fits and will sink into the coming months.

I am found in You and known as Yours.

I am found, I am Yours.

Seek the Lord while He may be found.

There's so much to say on this. Yet I don't know where to begin. I am found- how can I be lost when He has called me found. Which fits perfectly into my days right here because I keep saying that I'm at a loss. But nothing is lost. I am here, He is here. Jesus can be found in all my days and nothing is lost.

I'm praying this next year will be one of rediscovery, discovery, of seeking, and finding.

Perhaps I'll be finding even myself, again. What's funny, so many start out to "find themselves", the problem is that they don't know where they are or how to get there, or even what they hope to find. You can't find something if you don't know what you're looking for. But here I am entering a year of discovery. But not just of myself, because I'm not lost, I already know where to look. I'm excited to rediscover excitement, passions, Jesus Himself, and myself in that.

Jesus promises that:

"You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart." 

"The humble have seen it and are glad; You who seek God, let your heart revive."

In the seeking, the finding, the rediscovery, I'll do it with all my heart, to revive my heart.

As a good friend said in response to my uncertainty about choosing my word for the year, maybe you don't know all that it means yet. And I guess that's just as exciting as knowing, I get to find what God is doing, in my seeking, it may be found.

Out of all that has been lost, He restores. Like sheep without a shepherd, a lost coin, treasure in a field. There is joy in the finding. So here's to what may be found in the coming calendar months ahead.