24 takeaways to take into 2024

here are 24 takeaways from a girl who is still figuring out how to live. May they enrich you & remind you of the depth you’re called to live in.

1. You have a voice. It’s powerful and effective. When you are quick to listen, you learn more than when you’re speaking. When you are slow to speak, your words become more potent.

2. It’s not all about you. It’s all about them. It’s not: “What can I get?” It’s “what can I give?”

3. Silence and solitude with Jesus will save your life.

4. Pray out loud. Talk to God like he’s your friend. With any new relationship, it’ll take time to feel comfortable and safe. Know God is the safest person you can process with.

5. Search for what’s beneath the surface of what you do and how you behave. What has happened in your past that is showing up in the current version of you? Don’t sit in the shame of it, awaken to the possibility of progressing through it.

6. Quit believing the lie that you are who people tell you that you are. You’re much more complex and nuanced than the box people put you in. They didn’t create you, God did.

7. You have everything you need. What is in your hands that you can use to solve the problem you have?

8. The way people respond to you is a result of a culture that has shaped and formed them. Their response is more closely tied to who they are than it is to who you are.

9. Create create create. Whether it’s a business, an invention, a book, or a recipe. Never stop creating.

10. Ask thoughtful questions. Never allow what you think you know to block you from doors that could be the knowledge you’ve been needing.

11. Stop making assumptions about people you have no proximity too.

12. Usually the things you don’t feel like doing are the best things for you to do.

13. Dig into the depths of your beliefs. What do you believe that drives your actions?

14. The pain of life can sober you up so fast to what matters.

15. Talk to strangers (that seem safe) ask them questions about their lives and see what you discover.

16. Pray out loud the names of those you come into contact with. Those who are close to your heart & those you barely know.

17. When you question the people you love in your life, be quick to understand out of a posture of curiosity and compassion, not judgment or anger.

18. Get around people who don’t believe the same as you. Dig into their brains. Ask questions. Keep quiet most of the time. Observe and awaken your senses to absorb as much as you can.

19. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Have an awkward or difficult conversation. Embrace unfamiliar territory. Step into something you never thought you could do.

20. Own your path. Your path isn’t like everyone else’s. Don’t get stuck looking to the right or the left in comparison. You may not make the move someone else makes and that’s okay. If it’s in alignment with God’s plan, leave it to Him to make it make sense.

21. Awaken to the moment often. Pause. Bring your soul back to rest. Reflect and be still.

22. Becoming self-aware is a major key. Ask God for help. Identify why you do what you do. Identify what works best for you in terms of learning and being sharpened as an individual. Identify the ways you are best led. (this could be in a work setting or relationship setting).

23. Don’t allow others’ insecurities to make you question who you are. If you know who you are in Jesus, let that be the driving motivator behind everything you do.

24. Being set free happens in a moment, living free takes a lifetime. You don’t accept Jesus and then become like him overnight. It’s an overtime process where he breathes life and healing into you day by day as you rest in His presence and cling to the truth of His word over any of the lies.