Dear 2021

Dear the past year,

You’ve taught me the worth of community. You’ve taught me that not everyone is meant to stay in your life. You’ve taught me that being H.O.T. Humble, open, and transparent is better than remaining quiet when you’re at your lowest.

2021 thank you for showing me my strengths: a catalyst to change — moving churches — forgiving when it was hard, learning to love endlessly, being more intentional, staying grounded in my beliefs, knowing my worth, being empathetic, befriending anyone, uniting people.

You’ve shown me that life’s more than what you post on a screen, it’s more than the likes you get, then the compliments you receive. And it’s more about being the one to give compliments, living in the moment and snapping pictures throughout, being spontaneous and not living behind what others say to do. Life’s more than I’ve ever known and learning that has been hard. It’s been a stretching experience, containing tears, frustrations, outbursts of anger and confusion, hurt, but in those moments I saw that the greatest things are the ones you have to walk through to understand their meaning; that’s what happened with my life this year. I had to be broken, in order to see that people actually care, I had to be lost to see that God really does hold me together and guides my life, I had to be put in new settings to see that there’s better things on the other side of my comfort zone.

2021

You started great, then got a little rocky, but you picked right back up and ended sweet. You were a mix of fears, laughter, joy, and love and everything I needed in order to see that God is faithful.

I may not have gotten a lot of projects done, but I did walk out with a a community to love, and a greater understanding that living intentionally is better than living just to get by.

2022 I don’t know what you hold. But Gods got it under control.

“My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭73:26‬ ‭