transition

On the move?

/ Joy Lenton / 6 Comments

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 🌺💜

In transition

/ Joy Lenton / 15 Comments

We’re in a season of change.

Air stirs with sound familiar yet different. It’s like our ears remember the refrain but it doesn’t quite sound the same.

We’ve been laying fallow. Now we sense it is time to move forward.

Stretch limbs to sun, welcome warmth on upturned face, breathe easy.

New life springs forth from dead and dying. Darkness gives way to Light.

We see it in plant life. Sap surges and vitality rises from decay.

It is mirrored in our souls.

Each day is opportunity to start again.

Embrace change; embrace life, hope, healing, growth to come.

Yet.. while we waken, stir inwardly; while we make space for new, there is a growing pain.

Skin  cracks under the weight of it. Joints protest. Habits die hard and dig deeper.

Hope can fail us and discouragement sit heavy when we focus more on where we are now rather than where we can be.

We’re in transition from moth to butterfly and our souls ache to fly free.

In time, we will.

Hang in there, friend. There’s a hand waiting, reaching for yours, holding you safe as you wobble.

God has got you. And He’ll see you through every painful process of becoming all He intends you to be.

‘Transition’

You feel as if

you stand on the edge

of the abyss

tottering forward

on the precipice

I see you

as seed fallen

to the ground

ready to yield

its abounding harvest

Those things

which root you

to the earth

those pains

are pangs of new birth

You’re in a state

of transition

where you wait in position

as I ready to bring forth

hope of seeing Spring

I am training

you in love

before the raining

of my gifting

pours from heaven above

©JoyLenton2014

While we wait God is working on our behalf. We are being prepared for a destiny with an eternal perspective.

Keep trusting and believing. You are precious to Him . And though it may not look or feel like it yet ~ His timing is perfect.

*Bird photo credit:Image used courtesy of Kathy Snow

 

Joining here with Holley and other encouraging friends as we seek to offer #coffeeforyourheart

Also with Jennifer for #tellhisstory and with Lyli for #thoughtprovokingthursday