01/01/2026
I remember like it was yesterday : New’s Year Eve, 1981, at our home in Banner Elk. We had a few friends over to bring in the new year. We were gathered in the living room sitting around the fireplace. Someone was playing inguitar and we were singing worship songs. At the stroke of midnight we began singing “I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you. Take joy, my King, in what you hear. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.”
As I sat there, I realized I had never said to the the Lord, out loud, “I love you!” I was UNDONE by the power of that phrase, spoken out loud and the impact it had on my heart & spirit! I feel it even right now as I think back it.
All these many years later I still love Him, it still has a powerful effect to say it out loud and I want more than anything for that to be what governs my life in the year ahead!