see // 2022.

 2015: trust.

2016: healing.

2017: growth.

2018: discipline.

2019: new.

2020: rooted.

2021: release.

and this year?

2022: see.

instead of leaning on our own limited perspectives and understanding, we desire to see as our Creator sees. we don’t believe that we will perfect this discipline on this side of eternity, but we believe that Holy Spirit is calling us into deeper awareness of what He is up to at any given moment. and we don’t want to miss it! 

so often, we spend our lives taking things at face-value instead of looking deeper. we hope that 2022 will be the year that we begin to really see beyond what our eyes reveal — like, when a loved one says (and may even act like) they’re okay but they’re not. what fruit can come by seeing the world in focus, with empathy and compassion. 

there are a list of physical places we want to see in 2022, too! 

here is our why: 

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians‬ ‭4:16-18‬ ‬

these lyrics to a worship song from a decade ago keep bouncing around in my head, too:

“Oh look and see our God and celebrate

The power of the cross and empty grave

And now we're free

Let the redeemed lift up your heads

Oh look and see our God”

we are choosing to look, linger, and see as our way of life in 2022. 

we want to desire the eternal things of the Kingdom of God, not the things that are fleeting and temporary. because even our worst days and deepest pain and sufferings have eternal value, if only we offer them to the One who sees all things.