Looking back over the year, I realized something. A cycle I had found myself in, stopped. I used to find myself getting in the same types of situations over and over again.

At some point in our lives, we have to decide what is best for us. We have to decide that we are worth creating a different future than our past. I could have never created a different cycle for myself without God’s help. I was way too weak within myself to resist the temptations I faced to fall back into the same puddles I found myself in before.

As simple as it seems, I stepped into a better place by spending time praying God would help me to change. And then I listened when he whispered things to my heart that I needed to do. Some of those things were so small that it seemed like whether I did them or not, it wouldn’t really matter.

Some things were embarrassing like writing my ex a five-page letter with everything I ever felt or thought. I texted him a pic of that letter because I didn’t think that I would actually send it. That next Sunday.. a person laid their hands on me and said heal her from top to bottom, and I felt God’s healing virtue go through my body and I knew I was healed of that relationship.

I can’t tell you what the formula is for the healing you need to start having a different healthier cycle, but I can tell you that God is the answer. He is the only one who can give you the strength you need to make the right decisions after you have had a life time filled with the wrong things.

Just like this year, God helped me to start growing, changing, and creating a more positive environment for myself, I believe he is going to do the same for you.