Happy New Year, Everyone!

This community has been an important part of my life this past year. I wanted to thank each of you who knows me for how you contributed to me in my author journey.

May the upcoming year hold great blessings and fruitfulness to all of you.

As the majority of members of AM are believers, I’d like to share this encouraging word as you consider the last year, 2025.

What highs and lows you lived…what difficulties endured and lessons learned…here’s a fine way to perceive it:

• That rough-looking diamond is put upon the wheel of the lapidary. He cuts it on all sides. It loses much-much that seemed costly to itself.

• The king is crowned; the diadem is put upon the monarch's head with trumpet's joyful sound. A glittering ray flashes from that coronet, and it beams from that very diamond which was just now so sorely vexed by the lapidary.

• You may venture to compare yourself to such a diamond, for you are one of God's people; and this is the time of the cutting process.

• Let faith and patience have their perfect work, for in the day when the crown shall be set upon the head of the King, Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, one ray of glory shall stream from you.

• "They shall be mine," saith the Lord, "in the day when I make up my jewels." "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." (Spurgeon, Dec 30)