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 Reflecting on 2025 Looking Back Before Moving Forward Planning the future starts with reflection. Before setting new goals, take time to understand the past year. Reflection helps us recognize growth, lessons, and experiences we may otherwise overlook. Even difficult moments often hold valuable insights. Journal Prompts What were the biggest highlights of 2025? What challenges taught me the most? What surprised me about the year? What lessons do I want to carry forward? Reflection List three things 2025 taught you that will help shape your 2026.

 Choosing Your Word for 2026 The start of a new year often brings resolutions, lists, and pressure to change everything at once. But sometimes the most powerful way to set intentions is choosing a single guiding word. A word of the year becomes a compass for decisions, habits, and goals. Instead of rigid rules, your word reminds you what matters most. Maybe your word is growth, focus, balance, courage, or create. Your word should feel inspiring, grounding, and personal. Journal Prompts What feeling do I want more of in 2026? What word represents the life I want to build? When have I felt most aligned with this word? How would living this word show up daily? Reflection Write your word at the top of your journal page and reflect on how it might guide your choices throughout the year.

 #PlanInJan – 31 Journal Prompts to Start 2026 with Intention  January is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and design the year ahead. Instead of rushing into resolutions, **#PlanInJan** focuses on clarity, alignment, and intentional planning. Each day offers a journaling prompt to help you reflect on the past year and plan the next one with purpose. --- # Week 1 – Reflect & Reset *Understanding where you are before planning where you're going.* ### January 1 – Your Word of the Year What word do you want guiding your decisions in 2026? **Journal prompts** * What feeling do I want to experience more this year? * What word best represents that feeling? * What would living this word look like daily? --- ### January 2 – Reflect on 2025 Look back before looking forward. **Journal prompts** * What were my biggest wins in 2025? * What challenges shaped me most? * What lessons will I carry into 2026? --- ### January 3 – Celebrate Yourself Acknowledging progress builds momentum. ...

 Trigger warning - sexual abuse, bulimia, depression and Flashbacks.  I will never forget Christmas 2006. I was sixteen and my then boyfriend chose Christmas day to break up with me. It was my first relationship and I was crushed.  Or how about Christmas 2008. When my crazy brain decided to choose Christmas day to remember that I had been sexually abused 3 years earlier.  Finally how about last Christmas, the first without my uncle and with a grandmother that now has Alzheimer's.  The point is I understand emotional pain in the holidays.  I've worn the painted smile for the sake of not ruining Christmas for my loved ones, when inside I felt lost, alone and emotionally drained from carrying something so heavy.  The worse for me was 2008, the pain of realizing that I, miss ' pure princess waiting on Gods best" had lost the most precious thing to me to a rape and sexual assault, was so painful I could barely breath.  My faith took a hit, I chose to c...

🌟 **Shinemas Day 12 — Light That Reveals and Heals** **Scripture:** > *“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.”* > — **Ephesians 5:13 (KJV)** Light doesn’t come to shame us. It comes to **heal us**. Sometimes we fear the light because we’re afraid of what it might reveal—our struggles, our fears, our wounds, the parts of ourselves we wish weren’t there. Anxiety often tells us that if everything were fully seen, we would be rejected. But God’s light works differently. When Jesus shines His light on our lives, He does not expose us to condemn us. He reveals things so they can be **touched with grace**, **covered with mercy**, and **restored with love**. What is brought into His light is not pushed away—it is gently healed. Throughout this Shinemas journey so far, you’ve seen that Jesus meets us in darkness, walks with us through shadows, steadies our minds with truth, and speaks tenderly over our identity. Now, ...

🌟 **Shinemas Day 11 — What God Says About You** **Scripture:** > *“Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.”* > — **Isaiah 43:1 (KJV)** When anxiety is loud, it often speaks in labels. It tells you who you are based on your fears, your struggles, or your hardest days. It may call you weak, behind, broken, or too much. Over time, those voices can feel familiar—even believable. But God speaks differently. He doesn’t define you by your anxiety. He doesn’t identify you by your worst moments. He doesn’t reduce you to your struggles. Instead, He says, *“You are mine.”* Isaiah’s words are deeply personal. God doesn’t speak to a crowd—He speaks to *you*. He calls you by name. He reminds you that you belong, that you are seen, and that you are deeply loved. Belonging changes everything. When you know who you belong to, the lies lose their power. You may still have anxious thoughts, but they no longer get to define your identity. God’s truth stand...

 🌟 **Shinemas Day 10 — Naming the Darkness** **Scripture:** > *“Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.”* > — **Psalm 62:8 (KJV)** There is something freeing about naming what hurts. Anxiety often grows in silence—when we feel pressure to stay strong, to keep going, or to hide what we’re really feeling. But God never asks us to pretend. He invites us to be honest. The psalmist doesn’t say, *“Have it all together before you come to God.”* He says, *“Pour out your heart.”* That includes fear. That includes exhaustion. That includes confusion, sadness, frustration, and unanswered questions. Faith and honesty are not opposites. In fact, honesty is often the doorway to deeper faith. When you name the darkness instead of ignoring it, you bring it into the light where God can meet you with comfort and truth. Jesus already knows what you’re carrying. Naming it doesn’t make you weak—it makes you brave. It says, *“God, I trust You ...