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If you’ve been reading See Jane Write even for a short period of time you know that I am a girl obsessed with goals. I set goals for the year, goals for each season, goals for each month, and even goals for each week and day.
While I accomplished a lot in 2018, I didn’t reach any of my writing or blogging goals and if I’m going to make 2019 a success I have to get honest with myself about why.
On Wednesday, January 2 — the same day I published a blog post and an Instagram post on the importance of believing you can actually achieve your 2019 goals — I went to my church’s first Wednesday service and the preacher talked about the power of positive thinking. He discussed the power of positive speaking, too. We have to speak God’s Word over ourselves, over our lives, and over our situations, he said.
For me, this was confirmation that I needed to get serious once again about reciting (and sharing) daily affirmations, a practice I started last year but abandoned.
Related Reading: Affirmations for Women Who Blog
So I took some of my favorite Bible verses and used them to write 10 affirmations for Christian women who write.
I am a writer so it’s no surprise that I believe there is great power in words. So each year I like to choose a word for the year, a word that is my theme and my focus. A word that keeps me grounded. A word that keeps me going.
My word for 2019 is “CHANGE.”
“I think 2018 tried to kill everyone.”
A friend of mine posted this on Instagram about a week ago and I couldn’t agree more.
God doesn’t speak to me — at least not in the way I’d prefer. According to the Bible (and Father Lantom on Daredevil), God speaks in whispers. But the world is too loud. I need that burning bush kind of communication.
Over the past couple of weeks, however, I’ve been getting little messages here, there and everywhere that I believe may be divine.