As the last hours of 2025 slip quietly toward the horizon, I feel the invitation to pause—really pause—and look back at the year we’ve walked through. Not with judgment. Not with “should haves.” But with reverence.
Because whatever this year held for you—joy, grief, healing, growth, illness, restoration, confusion, breakthroughs, exhaustion—you didn’t walk it alone. Every moment, God was there. Even in the silent places where His presence felt like absence, He was moving beneath the surface like roots growing in winter.
Tonight, as we prepare to step over the threshold into a new year, I want to speak a blessing over your heart.
1. A Blessing Over Your Wounds
The wounds of 2025—seen and unseen—do not disqualify you from God’s goodness.
He is the God who still enters through broken doors.
He is the God who shows up in stables, not palaces.
If this year felt heavy, tender, or disorienting, may you feel the nearness of Christ—
not because your life is tidy,
but because He is faithful.
2. A Blessing Over Your Growth
You may not realize how much you have grown.
Healing rarely feels like fireworks; it feels like small, hidden faithfulness:
- choosing gentleness when you could have snapped
- returning to prayer even when you were exhausted
- doing one more simple act of love
- letting God hold you in the places you didn’t have strength to fix
- saying yes to grace, again and again
Heaven saw it all.
Every “yes,” every surrender, every tear you offered—these are seeds that will bear fruit in 2026.
3. A Blessing for Your Home and Body
As a Wholiopathic counselor and herbalist, I’ve learned this truth again and again:
Your body keeps the story of your year.
Your home absorbs the atmosphere of your days.
So tonight, consider giving both a gentle cleansing blessing:
Aroma Ritual:
Diffuse frankincense with cedarwood or spruce—grounding, purifying, and deeply biblical.
As the scent rises, pray:
“Jesus, cleanse my home and settle my spirit.
Make this space a place of peace in 2026.”
Herbal Peace Tea:
Chamomile • Lemon Balm • A touch of Holy Basil
Sip and breathe slowly, letting the year exhale out of your shoulders.
You don’t need to force healing.
Just create space for God to come close.
4. A Blessing for Your Faith
This year, you may have felt God stretch you in unexpected ways.
You may have asked questions you didn’t expect to ask.
You may have walked roads you never thought you’d have to walk.
But here you are—still turning your face toward Him.
Let this assurance settle into your heart:
God is not disappointed with your humanity.
He delights in your desire.
Your imperfect efforts still matter to Him.
Your longing for holiness—however fragile—still reaches His heart.
5. A Prayer to Close the Year
Jesus, Lord of Time and Eternity,
Thank You for walking through every hour of 2025 with me.
For the victories and the valleys,
the quiet miracles and the slow healings,
the lessons I asked for
and the ones I never wanted.
I place this entire year into Your hands—
every joy, every wound, every memory.
Cleanse what needs cleansing.
Heal what still hurts.
Bless what has begun.
As I step into 2026,
give me a heart that listens,
a mind at peace,
a body strengthened by grace,
and a soul anchored in Your love.
Jesus, be my Light in the new year.
Mary, be my mother and companion.
Holy Spirit, guide every breath.
Amen.
6. A Gentle Final Word
You do not have to enter the new year with pressure or perfection.
You do not have to reinvent yourself at midnight.
You just have to stay close to Jesus
and let Him unfold what is next.
May the last moments of 2025 be wrapped in peace,
and may 2026 meet you with gentle, holy beginnings.
Blessings, grace, and deep peace to you.
Thank you for being part of the Grace Filled Lemons community.
We’ll walk into the new year together.
From my Grace Filled Lemons heart to yours,
Laura
Grace Filled Lemons 
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