After a whirlwind holiday I’ve found myself entering this new year slowly. Slow in thinking through resolutions, slow in entering back into blogging, and really taking time to let myself breathe for a bit.

Has the holidays left you moving slower too?

Every time I would sit down to write, I had nothing. Part of me felt like, welp… that’s the end of blogging for me because I have nothing else to say. Another part of me said: keep coming back, you just need more time. The funny thing is, often slowness can appear negative in this culture. That’s probably why I was so quick to think about throwing in the towel when thoughts weren’t coming quickly. We often think we have to be the first to show up with creative ideas in order for people to pay attention. We tend to rush to the next thing without even processing the last thing. Do we even stop to consider what the next best step for us is?

That’s exactly what God has been speaking to me about this new year, slowly showing up. As in taking it one day at a time, and not constantly rushing to get to a certain destination.

I’m convinced that what God really desires of us is not a set of accomplished resolutions, but of daily obedience.

It’s daily obedience that produces fruit in our lives. Daily obedience requires our presence and awareness in the mundane. Maybe the mundane isn’t so bad after all. Maybe it is actually producing something in us (perseverance, endurance, obedience to name a few) when we choose to see the purpose in it.

I love the call this verse places on me, to be faithful with little. So often I get focused on wanting much, forgetting that if i’m not faithful with the little, than i won’t be faithful with much. So 2020, i’m choosing to take you day by day. I hope that come next New Years i can say,

“I saw God show up in a million different ways because I was taking time to look for Him.”