On the move?

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for subscribing and sticking around here (for almost a year!!) waiting for another post to arrive in your inbox. I haven’t forgotten about you at all.

However, I seem to be in a process of transition. Having started out on Substack as a reader and observer in the shadows for months, I finally took the plunge and began posting my own stuff. I started with an Advent series.

Like all new blogging platforms, it’s been a steep learning curve but also a joy to be in the creative flow once more and able to share my words.

So I think I might possibly be on the move with my creative work. Not immediately, I hasten to add. More of a slow crawl than a fast swim, of course.

I’m reluctant to relinquish this beautiful blogging home just yet because I hope to write here again in this bright new year. But I thought I should forewarn you of that potential possibility and also give you an opportunity to read my posts on Substack and decide if you’d like to subscribe and follow me there.

Here’s a link to my current post about my one word for 2026:

https://substack.com/@joylenton/note/p-184315532?r=1vd79&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

And here’s a link to my profile on Substack which has been freshly renamed as Sacred Echoes:

https://substack.com/@joylenton?r=1vd79&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

I will keep you updated about moving on, though it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

Bless you for your faithfulness,

Love,

Joy xx 🌺💜

On the cusp

Here we stand. On the cusp of uncertainty. Hovering at the edge.

On the brink of possibilities, potential or pitfalls.

Where hope and fear meet. Expectation rises.

Here lies a blank sheet waiting to be inscribed like the pages of a new journal.

Our stories wait to be written.

Our lives stretching out before us in minutes, hours, days yet to be lived.

Our disappointments ready to be consigned to The Past.

For this is a new year approaching ~ opportunity beckons to do things differently.

Are you ready?

‘Anew’

Celebrated arrival cloaked

in virginal innocence

A blank sheet

clean slate

rose-kissed dawn

pregnant with possibility

Viewed with eyes

of wonder

intrigue

suspicion

awe

breath-held fear

and great curiosity

What if?

What if THIS ~

is the time

promises are kept

dreams come true

lessons are learnt

goals are met?

Will problems rule

and reign again?

Will love flourish

or die?

Will we rush

with open-armed embrace

or turn aside?

No easy answers

rise to our lips

This takes

steely determination

raw courage

blind optimism

great faith

As we plunge

into The Unknown ~

unfamiliar territory

enclosed by memory

of past victories

of battles won,

we too

will overcome

©JoyLenton2012

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” ~ Isaiah 46:18 – 19