Looking back, it seems that my life has been a series of chapters.
Looking deeper, however, these “chapters” are really an overarching, meaningful narrative authored by our Maker, focused on relationship with Him, redemption, and a purposeful walk toward forever.
It is a progression, a journey of spiritual transformation and growth.
My last six years have exactly been this joyful journey (in 2025, the Lord made it my panacea for grief). I facilitated the women’s Sunday school in our church—not because I asked for it, but because son #3, the chairman of our church board, voluntold me.
At that time (pandemic), we had no pastor and to keep the Lord's work seamless was to assign someone who was available and could not say no: Mom.
It has been a learning (not teaching) voyage for me: mining the scriptures, discerning God’s truth, consulting pastors I know online, and sharing these with the women who added dimensions to the lessons through their own faith journey. I pray we have moved from a small seed to a strong tree.
In October last year, we have been blessed with a new, young pastor, whose wife has the energy, enthusiasm, and the expertise to take over.
In sync with the times, the last lesson for 2025, which I facilitated, was “Faith in Troubled Times."
We demonstrated this by burning whatever had been stunting our faith’s growth: problems, struggles, anger, bitterness, biases, etc.
When all turned to ashes, we celebrated the birth of Grace by sharing Christmas gifts.
Life on earth is just one continuing chapter. It closes when He calls. But it opens to an entirely new and eternal one when Jesus comes again.
We say one last "cheese" for 2025, but the journey under a new aegis continues.
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