Nancy DeMas-Walgamuth explains what you can expect in a new year.

There will be heartaches.

There will be hard times, but you can still smile at the future if you have planned

for thought intentionally about how you can walk into this year, walking in God's grace,

and growing in the relationship with him.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest. For December 31st, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh.

Women are making all kinds of resolutions about diet, exercise, and finances, and these can be very helpful.

When they're in their proper place, all these things flow out of our relationship with God.

Nancy's encouraging us to be more intentional about that relationship as we look ahead into the new year. Matt Emmons is the name that probably is not

familiar to you, as it was not to me until I found this on Google, but he is an American sports

shooter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

He was one shot away from claiming the gold medal in the 50-meter three-position rifle event.

Now I'm not even sure what all that means, but I know what a gold medal means.

And the first nine shots had scored so high that he did not even need a bull's eye to win.

All he needed for his final shot was to hit the target. And he would be the gold medal winner.

So he took aim, he fired, bull's eye. But no score came up on the board. And he looked puzzled. He says, I shot. He knew he hit a bullseye.

Moments later, the judges informed him that he had made a very rare mistake called a crossfire.

It means he had fired at the wrong target. He was standing in lane two, and in the

pressure of the moment, he forgot to look at the number of the target through his viewfinder,

which he normally did, and he fired at the target in lane three. So his shot was accurate,

it was a bull's eye, but because he had aimed at the wrong goal,

he got a score of zero for that shot.

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