2025 – A Year of Reconciliation!

The New Year is upon us and we enjoy that temporal landmark that offers the promise of making something better in our lives.And, if we are honest, we know it must be possible to reach the dreams we have set for ourselves. Inside, maybe deep inside, our heart tugs at us to make a change or else find a solution. So, since we are on the same page, why not make 2025 a year of reconciliation. To reconcile means to put back together that which has been separated. It’s to coexist and live in harmony. It is to remove the divides and clear out the barriers. In this light, what in your life needs to be put back together? Where do you dream of harmony? What is ultimately missing that needs to be filled in and covered, warmed and healed? Set your honest intentions this year with this one sole aim. Make 2025 a year of reconciliation and subsequently the best year of your life! You interested?

Maybe the largest area involving a need for reconciliation involves relationships. It’s amazing what can happen to people when bitterness and disgust set in. Cruel words are tossed around like bullets wounding the heart of both the shooter and the victim. Words that stick in the other person’s heart for years and years. Mean-spiritedness, anger, criticism, bringing swords to the fight etc. When it has gone south on you, as it invariably will at times, you have to change your position and soften your stance. You have to stop rehearsing the issues and get back to what you really need. It has to be “I need” not “you are.” You need a reconciliation. You need to give each other a fresh start. And, for God’s sake (literally), you have to stop dragging about this corpse of a memory of everything the other person has done wrong or else did that hurt you. None of us can undo our past errors, our sins and our follies. None of us! We would ALL love to go back and fix it, but we can’t. We won’t let it heal. The solution was never to fix it, but rather to let it go. LET IT GO! Stop dragging about that heavy bag of rocks. It’s not just making the other person’s life miserable, but yours as well. If you can make up your mind to let it go, to truly forgive and try to forget, then you offer yourself a fresh opportunity to get it right. A real fresh start, not a disguised redo. In this you can potentially reconcile any relationship if you want to do it. But, this wasting away years in misery and unhappiness is worse. Far worse. It’s 2025 soon, reconcile it.

One sore spot for many of us is our feelings. We were blessed with these sensitive creatures, yet they don’t always work with us. They can be easily manipulated, tricked and deceived. We start to draw false conclusions and tell ourselves stories. Then we reinforce our stories with more evidence and down the road we go, unhappy. How do you feel about yourself? Do you even like you? Or has your mind been carefully manipulated to think things that are not true until they become true for you? Do you think you can or you can’t? Are you angry with yourself because you’ve spent too much time comparing yourself to others? Are you broken, not right, cracked, lacking, unworthy, found wanting? Are you a sham, a play actor, a charlatan, a fraud? If you haven’t yet recognized that garbage to be the garbage that it is, then no wonder you feel so unhappy, so unfulfilled. You need to reconcile yourself to yourself. Get it back together. Stop opposing yourself. Don’t be your own worst enemy, as a friend once said to me. You never were really divided or broken cracked etc., instead you fed your mind the wrong information for a long time. You believed the lies, you said to you. You cannot be reconciled to yourself as long as you stand divided against yourself. You really aren’t that bad. Misinformed and tricked, yes, but bad, no. You just need to learn something new. 2025 – learn something new and get your heart healed.

At last, as we approach the end of 2024, there is one very serious consideration we all must have in order to be fully reconciled and healed and repaired and fixed and blessed and fulfilled. We need to be reconciled to God. I’m not talking about believing He exists. I’m talking about having a relationship with Him. I mean getting to know Him and His wonderful nature, His love and kindness, His willingness to help and solve and heal. It is the one thing you need in your life more than any other things. From Him all life exists. He is the filling of that empty hole in your heart. He is your long last happiness. He is your safety, security and your peace. He is what is missing from your life. He is already seeking you out and knows you. He is aware of your fears, your hopes, your dreams; some of which He gave you. He is the foremost One with which to be reconciled. Reconciliation is not just for those who don’t believe, it’s also for the believers who have gotten all screwed up about who He is and what He will do. Our hearts must be reconciled to His heart or we will never experience the fulness of life He desires for us. Never. We will just spend our days all distracted, caught up and agitated with what things look like over what they really are. We will just miss it and keep missing it. Make 2025 a year when you don’t miss it. Maybe you don’t know God very well yet, as if any of us could grasp His magnitude, then there’s no place to start better than right where you are. What do you need little one? Talk to the One who knows all things and start your journey there. It doesn’t matter how far you have come. What matters is how far do you want to go?

2025 – a year of reconciliation! The opportunity lies before us all to get back that which we have lost or maybe never even had. Believe to find resolutions to your issues, not resolutions to fix yourself. God has a solution. Trust me on that one. Reconcile your important relationships and get healed. People always say my wife and I have the best marriage. Not sure if that is true, but one thing we do sooner or later is reconcile to one another. Relationships require reconciliations (…sssss). Bring back together that which has been separated. Please, believe to get whatever has been bugging you; whatever has been eating away at you; whatever is in desperate need of repair, resolved once and for all. Fixed, healed, warmed, assured, handled, solved – blessed. It is 2025 and it us your year to reconcile whatever is missing in your life. Oh and don’t forget your biggest ally.

Just some good thoughts…