A New Year's Message for those with nothing but hope.

About Me

Hi, I’m Krista.

Strategic communicator and storyteller.

I am the wife of a very talented musician who takes me around the world in pursuit of excellence. Mama to Jakob, Audrey and Ella, who just happens to have Down Syndrome.
And an aspiring disciple of Jesus, defender of the oppressed, writer, graphic designer and photographer.

I write and speak on navigating through the fog of life…you know, when things don’t go exactly as planned and am fuelled by a passion to amplify the voices of those on the margins…
oh, and coffee…lots of coffee.

I love New year’s day. I love the quietness of reflection – no conclusions necessary. There is so much of 2012 that I want to remember and so much of it I would rather forget knowing that without each and every moment, I would not be the person I am today, in 2013. For the past six months we have clung to hope…and continue to do so, because without it, we will fall. Sometimes, life does not always work out the way we thought it would, the way that we hoped it would, the way that we wanted it to. Sometimes, when we pray for blessing, God gives us trials and sometimes when we pray for encouragement, God is silent. I wish I could say that it was otherwise but today, I want to talk to the people for whom, hope is all they have going into 2013. Be it in a little way, or a big way, they have come out of a year of being without, of waiting on God, of crying out, “How long, O Lord?!”

I don’t have answers. For many, like it is for us, you never thought it would go on this long in the first place – the hurt, the pain, the waiting for blessing without resistance. I don’t have answers. But I guess I just wanted to say, you’re not alone.

Hope.

Trust.

Healing will come. The job will come. God will speak. 2013. It’s your year.