{"id":37367,"date":"2025-12-31T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:28:41","slug":"the-threshold-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/?p=37367","title":{"rendered":"The Threshold of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As the curtains draw to a close,<\/span><\/p>\n

I am left counting the scars and the smiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

2025 was a year of high mountains,<\/span><\/p>\n

Where my laughter crossed miles,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where moments were golden, and I thought it would never fade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But it was also filled with the valleys, \n<\/span>Where my nights felt endless, \n<\/span>And silence pressed hard against my chest. \n<\/span>Where my pillows were soaked with tears, \n<\/span>And the world felt too heavy to hold, \n<\/span>And my heart felt too fragile to beat.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Throughout the year, I have carried both the feather and the stone.<\/span><\/p>

I have known of the joy that comes in the morning,<\/span><\/p>

And of the crushing weight of the dark.<\/span><\/p>

But as the clock winds down and we approach a new season,<\/span><\/p>

I look back and realize that I was not buried,<\/span><\/p>

I was being planted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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So as I stand at the door of 2026,<\/span><\/p>

I stand not with fear, but with a renewed determination.<\/span><\/p>

I am leaving my \u201cI wish\u201d and regrets in the shadows,<\/span><\/p>

And holding all the lessons close to my heart. <\/span>For I know who holds the pen for this next chapter.<\/span><\/p>

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So, I step forward with a spirit ready to receive,<\/span><\/p>\n

Believing in the promise that follows the storm.<\/span><\/p>\n

That the God of all grace, who called me here,<\/span><\/p>\n

Will not leave me standing and trembling.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He will uplift my weary head,<\/span><\/p>\n

He will strengthen my tired hands and heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

He will perfect what was broken,<\/span><\/p>\n

And above all, He will settle my feet on solid ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is to new beginnings \n<\/span>Here is to a new year of blessings and abundance beyond the eyes can see!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We count the scars and the smiles as we stand at the threshold of a new year. This poem is a reflection, leaving the regret in the shadows and stepping into 2026 with a promise of God’s renewal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37449,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions\/37449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urwordsormine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}