12/31/2025
A New Year's Message from New York Annual Conference Lay Leader Gail Douglas-Boykin:
As the year draws to a close, many of us stand at an invisible doorway. Behind us is a year full of effort, loss, learning, exhaustion, and change. Ahead of us is something wide and largely unnamed. The instinct, especially in uncertain times, is to pack everything. Every lesson. Every disappointment. Every unresolved fear. We tell ourselves that carrying more will make us safer. It rarely does.
Reflection Questions:
Where has future-thinking begun to feel like pressure rather than possibility for me?
What signals—fatigue, joy, restlessness, clarity—have I been ignoring?
What question seems to be quietly forming beneath my plans for the coming year?
Before the year ends, choose one thing you will consciously release.
It could be…
A belief about yourself.
An expectation that never came to fruition.
A pattern of self-judgment.
A demand you have been placing on your own life.
This is not loss.
It is preparation.
I wish you all a Happy, Blessed and Healthy New Year! May 2026 be your best year ever!!!!
