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It’s All About Perspective

Esther 4:14

Intentional. I think I may have just accidentally discovered my word for 2025. As crazy as it sounds, we are welcoming 2025 in a little over 2 months! That is exciting and terrifying at the same time, but I digress. Webster defines intentional as “done by intention or design”.  Intentional. Right where I am supposed to be. Stay with me as I take you on this crazy journey that is my ADHD brain and let me tell you how God gave me that word. 

There have been some extremely big transitions in my world over the last six months. I saw my children complete significant chapters of their lives and I have dealt with conflicting feelings. Sadness that those chapters were ending. Excitement for the new chapters each of them would be approaching. Proud of them and what they have accomplished and had to overcome to get to this next step. (And if I am being completely transparent, I’m feeling selfish. I realized that this is the first time I will not have any of my kids at school with me.) 

With big transitions come big feelings. And boy have I had them. I told my oldest when graduation was approaching, that I was gonna cry at any given moment, but I wasn’t sad. I was just so proud and excited and embracing my really big feelings. She understood because, let’s face it, her mama didn’t just start having big feelings. Also, she is 100% her mama so she has all those big feelings too.  Sorry, not sorry. 

So, all of these significant transitions and feelings are part of my story. God knew all of this and prepared me for it, albeit maybe not as much as I would have liked. So, when He gave me the word “Intentional” at this stage in my life, I knew what he was trying to teach me. I was created for this exact moment. Each change, experience, and feeling was made just for me. And I was made for them. 

When I think about the things that have happened in the last 6 months, I can’t help but smile. Not because they have all been easy or enjoyable, because they sure have not. But I know that even with the hardest times, God has prepared me for every situation. Adulting is hard. Parenting is harder. But I was made for this exact moment. Every single one of them. The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful and everything in between. So, when you get in a rough patch and think that you are falling apart, just remember that God is busy behind the scenes working so many things out for you. 

Side note: my girls are laying and I am so dang excited! They all prefer the same nesting box, with the exception of the one (either Bailey or Keisha) who just lays right in the middle of the coop. These nesting pads are amazing and keep the eggs from rolling out of. the box. We get between 3 and 6 eggs each day and they are a beautiful array of colors. I didn’t know a chicken (or 8) could bring me so much happiness, but here I am. See what I mean about intentional?

So many heavy things are happening in my life right now, yet I am CHOOSING to focus on the things that bring me joy. Don’t let anyone, anything, or any situation steal your joy. There is ALWAYS something to be thankful for and a reason to smile. 

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