A Fresh Start & A New Year
Marriage, clay art, friendships and my faith deepening, decorating my house, chopping off my hair, choosing to be disciplined with exercise, more tattoos being added. What do you hope for in 2025?
Hello! Welcome to the Sacred Seasons blog. For those that have stuck around for my blogging adventures over the last 10 years, I am eternally grateful.
So much has changed in the last 10 years- way too much to record in a short blog post- and so much so that I felt the need for a rebrand and a fresh start. Thus, the Sacred Seasons blog was born! Here I hope to share ponderings about life, faith, marriage as a newlywed, recipes, hobbies that I’m into, books that I’m reading, and other thoughts as they emerge.
To jump right into the 2025 year, I created a vision board to set the scene for the year. I will attach a digital version onto this post. A few friends of mine and I met up over the New Year’s weekend to craft and plan for the year ahead. It was a sweet time of fellowship, reminiscing on the previous year, and expectantly looking forward to the joys of a new year.
That’s me, second from the left!
I feel inclined to share a few notable things, as well as notable books, from 2024.
In 2024,
At the end of 2023, I moved home to live with my parents and lived there for half of 2024. Our relationships grew stronger. My brother moved home around the same time as well.
I started dating my now fiance, and we dated long distance for several months.
He and I both moved to a new city in Kentucky. I started a job in a career I never would have expected. We live across the street from each other and that has been a sweet gift.
I shortly after left that career and transitioned to a supporting role in a public school. Working with kids is always a place that has felt fulfilling and refreshing to me.
I got engaged to the love of my life in November and planned a wedding in a month! We get married in February (39 days, but who’s counting)!
I lived in my own apartment alone for the first time. I was then confronted with my deep resentment for being alone (I’m quite extroverted), but it has been a gift to learn and grow from it.
I spent one semester in seminary for counseling and realized that it wasn’t for me. Hey, we have to try and fail sometimes (and I actually did fail a class).
I learned that not all of life is glamorous. A lot of it is quite mundane, and a little sad, even. Yet, God’s mercies are new every morning.
I started another little blog to begin a new year with a fresh start.
Some notable books I read this year:
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Why Do I Suffer?: Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by John D. Currid
What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics by R.C. Sproul
Twilight (duh.)
2024 was a year that shaped me in ways that no other year has ever done. Perhaps the inner workings of this year are stories for another time. I wonder- what are you hoping and believing for in 2025? What words do you hope describe your year? What books will you read? What hobbies will you invest in? Until next time, cheers to 2025.
xoxo,