New Thing Coming

A good friend sent me this song a few weeks ago.

This is such an incredible song. It reminded me of how I have faced the darkness and daunting mountains over the last few years.

However, in 2025, this song also brings hope.

There were times in the last few years when I asked God to just let me slip away in my sleep because I wasn’t sure why He still had me on the earth. I felt like everything and everyone had either been taken away from me or had abandoned me – and I no longer served any purpose in life.

Clearly, I had momentarily forgotten the guidance and insight God gave me back in 2017 For The Journey Ahead…

But God…

I never stopped trusting Him, although I had to wonder if my lot in life might just end badly?

Or maybe we have to change our perspective and trust God to lead us.

In early 2024, I had the growing desire to leave the state of Alabama and start over somewhere new to see if I could get better physically, mentally and spiritually.

A series of God-timed events brought that dream to a reality late in the summer, and by September, I was driving south for one last chance at life.

I had no plan and a small budget, but somehow I was not afraid. It was a crucial point for me to either “get busy living or get busy dying.”

At that time, I could barely walk for more than a minute without feeling like I was going to have a heart attack. I was constantly out of breath and ached all over. My health was seriously at a critical point.

Fast forward six months and life is (thankfully) very different. There are new friends who encourage me, plus exercise and physical fitness coaching, have probably saved me, although I still have a long way to go.

Will I always have some neurological deficits from a series of strokes and something called pseudotumor cerebri?

Will it take a while to completely heal from complex PTSD?

The consensus is yes, but it doesn’t have to take my breath away anymore.

It doesn’t have to make me hide or leave me alone in bed.

It doesn’t mean my God cannot heal any part of me despite what a doctor says.

It doesn’t mean I can’t have friends, find love again, or discover a new purpose in life.

This is not my label anymore…because there is a new thing coming.

So, I will live and I will do it with more peace than I’ve ever felt.

I will live, while remembering that we are not promised tomorrow. For the first time, I truly understand what it means to live each day to the fullest.

I will live knowing that God still has a plan for my life…a new life with new things coming.