My Love Letter to 2025 💌

Dear 2025,

You were everything you were meant to be.

You inspired breakthrough,

brought connection,

humbled me in the most needed ways,

and taught me how to make time and space for what’s most important.

I learned that grief and gratitude can and will share the same room,

—- and that’s okay.

How beautiful it is to experience everything in its entirety.

You gave me confidence in choosing my own path,

—- that whatever my reality is, it is perfectly mine.

You taught me that it’s okay to not be okay,

—- and how to admit that.

I have always been so stubborn in this regard.

And that sometimes you have to hurt to heal,

—- that uncomfortability is growth.

And growing brings the most unexpected opportunities.

At the beginning of the year I adopted the word “embrace” as my intention going into 2025. I wanted to welcome with open arms all of the possibilities, change, and redirection that would come. God truly gave me that opportunity!

I have never had such a changing and unknown reality before. In a lot of ways, this past year broke me! I spent hours on my knees desperately pleading to my Savior for strength and understanding.

I had every intention to work hard, serve others, and live for my Savior… and I did all of that to the best of my abilities!! I lived a million different lives this past year, and He was a constant through it all. But it’s hard when your circumstances don’t allow you to be fully present with where your heart is.

What changed me the most was learning on a more intimate level, how my Savior lives for me.

How intentional He is.

How loving He is.

How He has fought, and continues to fight, for His people.

I’d like to say I welcomingly embraced every season of life this year, but the reality is no- I did not. God knows I am a stubborn and determined soul. But I still consider that word to describe 2025… because it’s the year my Savior embraced me.

He held my hand through every high, and the lowest of lows, and allowed me to experience them exactly how I needed to.

The peace I felt amidst the chaos was so tangible.

I broke in a lot of ways, but was rebuilt into a more confident soul that is here to tell you now:

God is real.

Coincidences don’t exist.

He has deliberately and intentionally written every. single. moment. of our lives exactly how it needs to be.

And it’s all for good🤍

I am leaving this year with a new beginning, and the feeling that God is still working in my life.

I am so excited to see what 2026 has in store.

So thank you, 2025, for all of the growing pains.

I will forever be fond of you.

Xoxo, Lil