Seed to Sequoia by Ruth

Happy New Year 🎆🎈 🎉✨

Because of God’s faithfulness, may you experience strength for every today and bright hope for every tomorrow throughout the year 2023.

May you be aware of God’s words to you and do with them as He pleases.
May you be satisfied with a long, abundant, and healthy life and may be a source of help to many.

Through you, may others experience the power, the wisdom, the salvation and love of God.

I wish you and your loved ones the most wonderful year so far.
May God bless our leaders and lands too.

Amen.

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Please, take time to remember ✨ 1 #

It has been a year full of different things for everyone.
Now, especially if this particular period isn’t all merry and good vibes, in good health, overflowing with love, great company, great food that doesn’t stop, dream job, long planned, long desired, long deserved vacation, answered prayers, and the eagerness to share that this has been the best year of your life, if it isn’t so glaring and you haven’t been well disciplined or well experienced in the life of thanksgiving, you will fall for a lie.

So, today, I’m writing to you; not because I’m all of those things I just mentioned 😅 I’m writing to you because some weeks back, I was writing to God and it was hard to see anything great or beautiful because that very moment was full of a lot of gaps, prayers waiting for answers, answers waiting to be fulfilled, loved ones in waiting or sick, projects in the early phases of the pipeline, and what not.

See ehn, I don’t joke with God’s commitment to prayer - when we commune with Him, He does with us and I don’t know a thing greater. I just said I wanted to be thankful. I meant this and I knew it was possible because He had helped me before. How He helped me this time was so different from the last time I was struggling…

I glanced through photos, people. Photos. And I was like, ah ah. Did this happen this year???
I had a such a MIGHTY year indeed. Such a heavily remarkable year!!!
Some days, it almost feels like my heart can’t contain how blessed I’ve been and how grateful I am for the opportunity to have received and the opportunity to have given.
I can’t even find the right words to describe this - I think I could but Instagram isn’t just enough word space😅.
Taking some time to recall a only a few events from this year has changed the story of my life for good and I hope that you can do the same.

Please, take some time to remember, to smile over memories, to be intentionally thankful to God and your community: people who have showed up for you.

Be thankful, be grateful; even if there’s a million and one things you’re so sure went wrong. And if you’re struggling to be thankful and hopeful or full of love…