One of the best things that you can do for your faith in 2026 is to make reading your Bible a regular habit.

Join 10-minute Bible Talks, study of the Gospels by downloading the 2026 Bible reading plan

and reading a Bible passage that goes with each day's podcast episode.

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plan in today's show notes. Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your

life and the time it takes to get to work. I'm Tanya Wilmeth. How do you like to mark

the end of a year? With resolutions, regrets, relief. If you're listening in real time,

it's December 30th. We've made it to the end of another year, another season of TNBT,

and the end of Isaiah, which, let's be honest, feels like it could have been its own

calendar year. And we've journeyed all the way through the kings and the cycles of judgment,

watching God's people stumble, repent, and stumble again. And more than once we saw ourselves

in their struggles. The Bible has been keeping it real with us all year. It doesn't sugarcoat anything

or hide the uncomfortable moments. It lets us feel the ache of people who desperately need a

savior and then helps us recognize that same ache in our own hearts. So now that we're

ending one year and stepping into the next, it feels right to keep it real in our own lives, too.

I don't do New Year's resolutions. I don't keep them. I do have a few long-running goals,

but they're not tied to the calendar. What works for me is looking back pretty regularly at the

highs and lows and simply paying attention to what God is teaching me through them.

One of my highs this year surprised me. It came from becoming comfortable in my own skin again.

See, I spent years being mom, mommy, mama to four kids born within seven years.

I did things, carpool volunteering, leading Bible studies that don't exactly

translate to resume bullet points. And when I reentered the workforce, I know you've heard me talk about

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