Time for my annual ritual.
I have a daily discipline that includes listenting to the DailyAudio Bible podcast (highly recommended), and for the psat few years I have been micro-journaling each day, usually just a few words that stood out to me from the reading (or words that the reading evoked in me). At the end of the year, I pump the journal into a word-cloud maker (wordart.com) to show visually by size which words appeared most.
In 2024, I journal just one word each day, with each word generally intended to complete the sentence, “Today’s reading seems to be mostly about ____.”
I hope that 2025 brings more opportunities for all of us to hear what God is trying to say to us, and that we are willing to listen.