I’m Not Posting Again Til Next Year (no really)

Want to know one of my most important goals for 2025? 

Having a list of goals for 2026.

If you’ve been following my blog and social media this year, you might have noticed that I’ve been on kind of a roller coaster of “what am I actually doing here.” 

(If you didn’t notice, I guess I was doing a better job than I thought.)

I had a few seasons of being incredibly consistent and clear on my goals. 

I took a couple of intentional breaks. I took a couple of unintentional breaks. 

I had a lot of moments where I felt like just deleting social media, closing my computer, and completely disconnecting from the internet. 

But every time I felt that way, someone would tell me how much they love my content, or God would confirm to me in some other way that this is what I’m meant to do. 

Until about a week ago, when suddenly it hit me: 

Just because God has given you a purpose and a calling doesn’t mean he expects you to fulfill it right away. 

We talk so much about how life is short, so you should do the things that are important to you right now instead of waiting, but we forget that life can also be pretty long. 

We’re always asking “if you died tomorrow what would you regret?” but we don’t often ask “if you live another 40-60 years what will you regret?” 

There’s this unspoken challenge among 20-somethings to check all these boxes before you’re 30, as if that’s when your life starts to end, but maybe it’s actually just when your life starts to begin. 

Don’t forget: Jesus didn’t start his ministry until he was 30. 

That didn’t mean anything to me as a kid, but it’s been hitting me this year. (for some reason turning 27 made me realize I’m closer to 30 than 20, even though that’s mathematically been true for a couple years…)

If anyone should have been making the most of his twenties, it’s the one who only had 33 years to live. 

Think about it: God lived on the earth in a human body for 33 years, and he only spent three of them doing anything we’ve ever heard about. 

It’s crazy to think about what he might have been doing for 12 years of adulthood, just biding his time, waiting, living a normal life. But that time wasn’t wasted because he knew whatever time he had after 30 would be enough to do everything he was meant to do. 

How much more should we believe that, when we’re much more likely to live a long life (and whatever we’re called to do is a bit less earth-and-heaven-shattering than Jesus?) 

Time is precious enough that I’m not going to waste any of it looking up actual statistics, but if you’re in the demographic who has access to this post your odds of living well into old age are pretty good. 

And never mind the odds; we all get exactly as much time as God gives us. We shouldn’t waste it on things that don’t matter, but we also don’t always have to try to do things in the least amount of time possible. 

Sometimes we just have to trust him enough to play the long game; to do things slowly instead of rushing like we’re running out of time. 

I don’t want to be a 27 year old with thousands of faceless followers, adding more and more cheap content to the oversaturated chaos of social media. 

I would rather be a 47 year old with a Christ-centered, relationship-based platform, and I don’t even know what that looks like (books? YouTube? So many possibilities) but any of the above will take a long time to build.

And it’s hard to even decide which possibilities to pursue when you’re on the hamster wheel of trying to publish content all the time. 

I was thinking recently about my adult life so far and I realized that I have not had two full years without some major life change since I graduated from highschool. 

The last three especially have been full of transition and overwhelm, and I think someday I might look back and realize how crazy it was to have this project of my own on the side when my plate was already so full of things that were less optional. (not that I regret it, because the creative outlet has also been so good for me, but still…)

In the week since I first realized it was an option to take the entire year off of social media and blogging, it feels like such a weight has been lifted. It’s not even that it took so much of my time; it was just another thing to think about, and eliminating it for a while makes it so much easier to compartmentalize everything else I have to do and make it feel manageable. 

I’m so much more excited about everything else in my life (although I’m having to resist the temptation to commit to more new things, because I will always just have infinitely more ideas for things I want to try than time to do them.)

It’s so easy to get caught up in the energy of a new calendar and try to make goals for everything you’ve ever wanted to do. Which is probably why most people overcommit and give up on all their goals by February. 

But what if you just let some things be 2026 goals? What if you could just trust that you will have enough time for everything God has for you to do in your life? 

Not only would those long-term goals benefit from sitting on the shelf for a year, but whatever you actually choose for 2025 will work a lot better if you give it your full focus. 

On a housekeeping note: you might be wondering what to actually expect to see from me in 2025. I hope to keep up with my monthly email newsletter, and I have some blog content already written that I may schedule out so there’s a new post every month or so. (or I may not. I wrote it years ago and haven’t looked at it in a while so it may not be worth posting.)

I haven’t fully decided about social media - I’ll probably pop in once in a while to check on things, and might reshare some old reels. I do still use it some for connecting with real-life people and groups, so I can’t completely delete it, but I do need to break my habit of scrolling when I’m bored, which seems to be a constant struggle. 

I’m pretty confident I’ll be back to regular sharing in 2026, but I have absolutely no idea what it will look like. That’s what I’m hoping to figure out this year, so…stay tuned. And if you’re not already subscribed to my monthly newsletter, here’s the link to add yourself to the list!