Last year, I skipped my traditional vision board, and about three weeks ago, I decided I couldn’t possibly ignore it a second time.   That’s why I’ve spent the last several weeks praying about where things are, where they’re going, and where my focus should be – and here I am at almost midnight, still locking it in. 

While I’m doing that, I keep coming back to Psalm 37:4 which says to “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” 

I wish I had a clue what my heart actually desired, except for that vacation to Tahiti. 

Earlier this year, the Lord graciously gave me the opportunity to get back on track with a goal I had let slide until I truly believed it was a lost cause.  But not only has He redeemed an opportunity I believed I had idled away, He has also given me renewed passion and energy to see it through. 

And somehow, it’s deeper now. There’s a bigger and different goal. One that I kept coming back to again and again for months, with no real idea or understanding as to why this particular goalpost kept tugging at me. 

Then a simple conversation happened.  A seemingly random comment from my boss. A sermon. A few scriptures that “just happened” to be in my reading for the day.

And it all culminated in me sitting in my living room, crying—grateful for how patient God is with me, and how thick-headed I can be sometimes. Grateful for this HUGE Lord I serve… this God who knows the desires of my heart before I do.

Because if I’m honest, I’d been going around trying to figure out what God has planned, because of course, it’s essential that I know every detail, every facet of what may be possibly in store.  I don’t really like surprises all that much (unless it’s that ticket to Tahiti – then by all means…surprise away). 

Then God gives me this small glimmer of just what may be on the docket . . . why these goals may be tugging so hard at my heart strings. 

And it leaves me so grateful.  Not just that God knows me – because He loves me enough to have plans and a purpose for me, to be with me through all of it… but because earlier this year when He told me that I didn’t have to walk away from these goals, these dreams . . .  He also gave me the faith to believe Him, to act on it. 

What does that mean for you?  Where in your life do you need to trust God’s leading even if…even when He hasn’t shown you the destination?  Much less, how you’re going to get there . . . And then – what are you willing to do in 2026 to chase God? To abandon everything for your relationship with Jesus and discover the real desires of your heart?