Inspired by the song from Elevation Worship, “Goodbye Yesterday,” I finalize this blog for this season with these words of mine…

Goodbye yesterday.

Goodbye 2021.

Goodbye trauma, soul hurts, the “you’ve done me wrong…”

Goodbye to the old me.

Goodbye to my precious pastors and friends and people and who I used to be.

It’s a chapter, a part of my life, a book actually, that I’ve lived, grown, written and have now outgrown…

A place that I’ll never be able to return to, because of the new life in Jesus I’ve stepped into…

It’s settled.

It’s like really, really healed.

I look at the old faces and literally can feel pure love for them, even the ones that were really, really, wrong; the ones that were hurtful, maybe on accident, maybe with intentionality— either way it just doesn’t matter.

It’s peace.

It’s ’I pray that your life is blessed beyond your wildest dreams, really.’

I really, really love you.

I care that you are successful and that your family and flocks are blessed and that everything you’ll touch prospers as you walk with Him, too.

Yes, actually.

And yes, I just have nothing left to say, except I no longer want to look back.

I want to remember, to forget.

I’m going with Him.

I’m always going to be going with Jesus.

What’s next? I don’t know. I maybe have an idea, but it really just doesn’t matter. It’s time to close a REALLY big chapter in the book of my life, a book that was the turning point, and I literally lack nothing.

I don’t know what is next.

I see on the horizon a beautiful family, with a wife and a mama that God trained up, loving a husband and three humans more than her own life at the least…

Because even if a simple life with love, family, food and friends soaked in the love of Christ is all there was ever supposed to be, I couldn’t be more content.

Only He is my enough.