Here we go, 2025.

My word for last year was “fight.” And fight we did. It seems like some of us lost in some ways, but 2 Cor. 4:16a-18 keeps coming to mind. “Therefore we do not lose heart…For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 

I think there’s a call to go deep into the unseen. To love better. To learn deeper layers. To make deeper alignments. To better resist what is harmful and unlawful. Of course, these things also manifest in the “seen,” but I’ve been thinking a lot about the space where “the things of the world grow strangely dim.” Don’t worry, I’m not talking about drifting off to la-la land, but more and more to that unshakeable heart space of being loved and whole. We tend to think that space is reserved for mystics while the rest of us struggle and do the dirty work of life, but I believe that’s off-base. I think it’s the destination God wants for all of us, even in the midst of struggle and taking care of the dirty work.

So we press on. We fix our eyes on the unseen. We trust that God’s got this. We move closer to that space of knowing. May it become our reality, whether the world gets better or falls apart, because what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.