Be You in 2025!

Margaret Rash reflects on finding ways to be a better version of herself, rather than trying to be someone else, in 2025.

I have a secret to share. I have a planner problem. What I mean by that is that I have a problem with spending way too much time researching planners and spending too much money buying new planners.

I am always searching for a way to be better organized. Similarly, I find that I’m perpetually searching for the perfect homeschool curriculum and the most devout prayer routine. Maybe you can relate to my feeling of being constantly on the lookout for that “one special thing” that's going to suddenly transform my life into a perfectly organized, well-oiled machine of holiness.

But I already am fairly organized

Really, I am! I just don't use paper planners. I buy them, and don't use them. My kids also have a great curriculum for our homeschool; they're learning a lot and happy and healthy. My prayer life could use some work, but isn't that true of us all?

The problem isn't that I'm so disorganized and need more stuff to help me. The problem is that I'm spending too much time comparing the way I do things — my schedule, my routine, my homeschool, the cleanliness of my house, my prayer life and more — with how other people do things. But God didn't call me to be some other person, He just asks me to be the best at being me.

My new New Year's resolution, beginning now

I'm going to stop looking at what other people are doing and buying. I'm going to stop shopping for new products which try to guarantee a better life and I'm going to stop comparing my way of doing things with others.

Instead, I'm spending 2025 focusing on being the best version of myself that I can be. I'm going to ditch the paper planner gathering dust that I know I'll never use and embrace my digital calendar. I'm going to lean into my God-given strengths and talents and use them to build up the Kingdom for the glory of God. I'm going to spend more time using the things I already have instead of searching for new things, and I'm going to spend more time being satisfied with what God sends my way.

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