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Hi friend,
Welcome back to She Speaks Life. ✿
There is something sacred about beginning again.
Not because the calendar resets anything within us, but because it invites us to pause long enough to notice what has quietly shaped us, and what hasn’t.
A new year carries its own quiet pressures, to become new, to begin perfectly, to fix everything at once.
But Jesus never begins with pressure.
He begins with presence.
With love that steadies us before we ever take a step.
Before we move into another year, maybe the holiest act we can make is to turn our hearts back toward the love that grounds us, holds us, and leads us.
This is where the year truly begins, not with striving, but with reorientation.
Not with resolutions, but with return.
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Facing the Right Way
When Jesus was asked about the greatest commandment, He didn’t start with achievement, productivity, or spiritual performance.
He started with direction:
“Love the Lord your God … and love your neighbor as yourself.”
Love is not a task, it’s a turning.
A posture.
A way of facing the world.
We often think change begins with discipline, but Scripture shows us that true transformation begins with love that reorients us from the inside out.
Before Jesus asks us to do anything, He calls us to be rooted.
Before He sends us, He steadies us.
Before He forms our actions, He forms our attention.
Maybe that’s the invitation of this new year:
to let love become our orientation, not just our aspiration.
Love that begins with God.
Love that softens how we see ourselves.
Love that reshapes how we see others.
Not rushed.
Not forced.
Simply received, until it naturally flows out.
Love is not a task, it’s a turning.
Speak Life Practice
This week, as we continue to step into this year, let’s practice beginning the way Jesus taught us: rooted in love.
1. Return to God first.
Take a moment each morning to reorient your heart, not through striving, but surrender.
A simple whisper:
“Here I am, Lord. Lead me in love today.”
2. Hold yourself gently.
Notice where you’ve carried shame, pressure, or comparison into the new year.
Let love soften your view of yourself before you try to love anyone else.
3. Let love shape one small action.
A conversation.
A decision.
A quiet moment of kindness.
Let one act today be guided intentionally by love.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart … and love your neighbor as yourself.”
— Matthew 22:37–39 (NIV)
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A Final Note
As you continue to step into this year, know this: you don’t have to earn the love that leads you.
You only have to return to it.
Let this be a gentle beginning, a turning of your face toward the One whose love has already gone before you.
A year not built on pressure, but on presence.
Not on proving, but on becoming.
May this year find you grounded, oriented, and held in a love that knows no rushing.
With grace,
P.S. Next week, we’ll explore Love, Not as the World Gives , a Christ centred love in contrast to romantice idealism