On 1 Jan 2020, I recorded a journal entry at 5:38am:
“I’ve been contemplating all of yesterday about what “word” you (God) would give me for 2020… the word that keeps popping up is FOUNDATIONAL, that 2020 is about taking the lessons learnt in the last decade, my last 30 years and relaying the foundations of what it looks like to live a life modelled after Jesus.”
Having had an opportunity now to read through all my journal entries from 2020, I can truly say that 2020 was a foundational year for me.
It was a year of stripping back and being reminded of what was important.
It was a year of acknowledging a lot of the mental junk and false belief systems/mindsets that I had picked up on in the last 30 years of living and then finding freedom from them.
It was a year of surrendering (though with struggle!) my trust issues to God and receiving healing from things of the past.
What I’ve been reminded of in 2020 is that an apprenticeship to Jesus is an ongoing process, it can be painful at times but the freedom on the other side is worth it.
Which brings me to 2021.
Continue reading “My Word for 2021”
Ames Goes Deeper 