Just Saying the Loud Part Out Loud

  

Supermoon, November 2025, Thailand

I proclaim your saving acts in the public places;

I do not seal my lips, LORD, as You know.

I do not hide Your righteousness in my heart;

I speak of Your faithfulness and Your saving help.

I do not conceal your love and Your faithfulness

from the public places...

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

may those who long for Your saving help always say,

"The LORD is great!"

Psalm 40:9-10, 16

I am feeling strongly compelled to join the psalmist this particular night.

New Year's Eve, and so so much to proclaim and speak, and no desire to keep in inside.

The Lord is great, yes He is.  Mysterious and uncontrollable, knowing but not explaining Himself most of the time, but gentle and generous and merciful to me.  

And I just have to say so as the year comes to a close.  Because it's been such a God-filled year, at every turn.  I just seems wrong not to give this voice.

This sentiment is also reflected in a worship song that I believe was new to me this year.  It's title is simple.  "Praise" by Elevation Worship.  I love the energy of it.  And it begins with a repeated refrain, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord" (from Psalm 50:6).  But this whole idea that we can't help ourselves when we've got something spectacular to say is in the bridge.

"I won't be quiet, my God is alive

So how could I keep it inside?"

And so, dear, dear amazing, beautiful God.  

Where should I begin?  Oh my!

First, thank You for being in charge, and so big, and so wild.

Thank You for all the ways You have shown up for us this past year of 2025.  For the generous gifts of house and home, of warmth and belonging, of safety and health, and for the over and above provision for all our needs.  Thank You for continually teaching me, correcting me, guiding me.  Thank You for all the answered prayer, for all the challenges that drove me deeper, for all the love that sustained me, for every beautiful soul I encountered and learned from.  

With You all things are possible, and that means 2026 is embraced with open arms, no matter what.  

With confidence and anticipation and joy and wonder, 

Yours always,

Me

May your New Year bring so much of life and blessing that it makes you all mushy and expressive too (or at least as much as you care to be).  

Happy 2026 to us all.