Times and Seasons: Tying it all up together

Now that the new year has kicked off, it feels fitting that I write this post. The “Times and Seasons” series was inspired by some of the events that unraveled in my own life, as well as by those I witnessed in the lives of others throughout the year of 2025.

There is no doubt that it was a very difficult year for many people, including myself, for a myriad of reasons. Most times than not I felt like the Psalmist in Psalms 77: crying out to God day and night, too troubled to speak, my spirit refusing to be comforted, groaning and asking, ‘Has His promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful?’. If you know you know. Yet even when I felt like I had been poured out like water, too faint to carry on, I was strengthened in the journey, and God made it ever so clear that the boundary lines had fallen in pleasant places for me (Psalms 16:6; 22:14). The Bible says that blessed is the person whose delight is the law (Word) of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. For they are like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding fruits in season, and whose leaves do not wither – whatever they do prospers (Psalms 1). That Scripture points to the evergreen abundance that is available to us as God’s children, regardless of the situation in which we find ourselves; that is the grace that carries us.

|This means that even if there is drought in the land, we as children of God, have the grace to produce harvest (Jeremiah 17:8).

It is this grace that located the widow at Zarephath through an encounter with Prophet Elijah, after which her jar of flour and jug of oil never ran out until the drought ended (1 Kings 17). I must admit, it is only in retrospect that I can point to the little harvest that I produced in 2025, because it was not as obvious as having physical oil that never run out; in the moment, it felt too obscure. However, by God’s grace, we made it to the new year!

In the second post of this series (Times and Seasons: A Strategic Response to Disruption) I briefly recounted a dream that I had in the early months of 2025; a dream in which I and some loved ones were enclosed in a transparent capsule that was submerged in turbulent waters. I also explained how this dream was a precursor to the disruptive events that were about to unfold in my life over the rest of the year. If you have not read that post, as well as the subsequent ones, I really encourage you to do so, so that you may fully grasp the entirety of the message that this series is conveying. Going back to the dream I had: after the scene of being in a capsule submerged in turbulent waters, the dream shifted to a scene where we were now out of the capsule and walking through a desolate, snow-covered small town. As we walked, I remember looking around and thinking, ‘Wow, this place needs a lot of reviving.’ That moment mirrors what I feel 2026 will be about for me, a season of deep healing, and moving from survival mode to abundant living.

I do not know for certain what “abundant living” will truly pan out to be, but I know for certain that I will tangible perceive, see, feel and touch that which the Lord has been doing in the background, including the ways in the wilderness and the streams in the wasteland (Isaiah 43:19).

|Moreover, I know that the journey of healing will take a level of effort, intentionality and wisdom from my part, which is the nexus of this blog!

And with that, from the Interntional&Wise headquarters (my living room of course), I wish you an abundant and wholesome 2026!

Stay tuned, because I have exciting things lined up for this year!