Looking back on 2023, what name would you give to your journey of the past year? What image or metaphor might apply to it?
What were some of your ‘epiphanies’ of 2023 – your discoveries of the Holy One in your midst? How did you grow because of them?
Who were your wise persons? What did they reveal to you? How did this influence your life?
How did your experience of the past year affect the world in which you live?
And looking ahead to the year before you... 2024
What name would you like your new year’s journey to have? What gifts do you bring with you into the year ahead?
Do you find any resistance within you? Of what are you most afraid as you enter the year?
Who do you bring with you for support and strength as you begin to journey through the year?
How is your relationship with the Holy One at this time?
What is at the heart of your new year prayer? What do you need in order to follow Jesus faithfully in the months that lie ahead?
What do you hope to contribute to the world around you in this coming year?
Adapted from Joyce Rupp, Out of the Ordinary
2023 year of JOY restored
2024 a year of acceleration?
January ‘ FAITHFUL’