2025 prayer

Hold my hand as the calendar flips

Howdy!

I have to admit something. 2024 was the hardest year of my life. I can’t wait to see it exit the stage to help make room for a sweeter year. Maybe someday I will have the courage to tell the tale of how the past 12 months have tested to the very limits of my sanity - but I haven’t found it quite yet. Stay tuned!

However, I am going all in on 2025. I have to believe it will be the year where the frozen cruelty of this world melts into something warmer and kinder. I went into this past year with the same attitude and had my heart broken by it - and I am willing to do it all over again. I think having a fools hope is better than becoming numb and jaded. Maybe I am just a glutton for punishment? :)

Thank you for joining me on this adventure into our hearts. I am so very grateful that you are here and I wish you nothing but the best new year.

Let’s let go of what we need to and only tether ourselves to what feeds our souls.

Sending you love from windy windy WINDY Wyoming.

John

MY 2025 PRAYER

if 2024 was the silent quivering seed
~ 2025 will be the wild raging bloom 
if in 2024 you were grounded to Earth 
in 2025 you’ll fast tango on the moon  

in 2024 you shouted all your cold words 
in 2025 your voice will be summer rain 
in 2024 you believed that you were broken 
in 2025 you’ll break the wheel of shame 

2024 was the year of the clenched fists
2025 will be the era of pardoned sins 
2024 was when tried to hide your light 
2025 you’ll glow outside of your skin 

2024 wanted to divide us into teams 
2025 feels like kindness will multiply 
2024 sounded like a rusty chainsaw 
2025 will be a soft midnight lullaby 

2024 is fading away like a tire fire 
2025 is holding flowers on your porch  
in 2024 we had more ammo than people 
in 2025 we can choose empathy over war 

my love, hold my so hand tightly
as the calendar year gently restarts
as 2025 arrives, let’s drop our armor 
and entangle all of our lonely hearts

Photo by Moritz Knöringer on Unsplash

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