Hey guys! Shawn here. Welcome to PrayerLights. If you are new, this channel is
all about Mommy lifestyle videos to help you raise a Jesus loving child. In
today's video I will be talking about my 2018
word for the year. If you also picked out a word for the year, I would love to
hear it. Put it in the comments down below. If you're interested to
hear what my word is and how it will reflect throughout my 2018, keep watching. Hey
guys, so I am also trying out the new 4k camera on my iPhone 8 so if the sound is
a little bit off that is why. I haven't quite figured it out but I think the
picture quality will be pretty good. It will be pretty intense so if you see a
lot of wrinkles and dark circles under my eyes it's because I have an infant and I'm
not getting that much sleep. 2018 my word
is going to be... drumroll... okay that's silly my word... is going to be "abundance."
By "abundance," I mean abundance in time that I spend
with my family. Abundance in money, as in I would like to continue to pay off our
debt and therefore I need to make more money
in order to pay off debt so that our family has what we need. And an abundance
in health. This past year I spent a lot of 2017 being pregnant and
being sick and having a child and being sleep deprived. So I want to focus on
an abundance of good health if that makes any sense at all. I've chosen a
scripture verse and I'm going to read that. It is from the book of Jude, chapter 1
verse 2. This is just a greeting. Jude is starting off with a salutation, a
greeting to the community. He says, "may mercy, peace, and love be yours in
abundance." That is what I want. Mercy, peace, and love in abundance for my
family and for myself. In looking back over 2017, Oh! warning guys! This is going to
be a little chatty video. It'll be short but it'll be a little chatty. In
looking back over my 2017 word, and I will post the link
to that video in the description box down below, my word was "nurture." I
spent a lot of time nurturing my family. I had a baby, got pregnant, had a baby. I
spent a lot of time nurturing my job. I got extra training for my job and spent
a lot of time nurturing that relationship. I spent a lot of
time growing a new friendship. I have a Lutheran pastor friend who I absolutely
love and so I spent a lot of time with her. Working on growing my relationships
as an introvert, I tend to have trouble with relationships. I've always had that
one friend that I tend to spend a lot of time with my best friend and
for years and years that person has been Ricky. Not saying that he's not still
my best friend! Husband dearest, if you're watching this you are still my best
friend. I want to work on having more close-knit relationships so I spent a lot
of time focusing on one relationship in particular and I hope I've done a good
job with that. Rebecca, let me know! I probably still need to work on that but
it's just it always a growing opportunity for me. But nurturing. 2017
was all about that. I spent a lot of time... what else did i nurture in 2017? I
nurtured myself. I spent a lot of time just focusing on my body's needs. Being
pregnant those of you who have been pregnant you know how that is. You have
to really focus on taking care of yourself and I got sick quite a bit in
a two-month period in my first trimester. Seemed to pick up every single bug there
was. I work with children so that's natural and at that point I had a
nine year old and he was bringing germs home from school. Again, as a mom, you all
know we pick up all the bugs that our kids have. So this year I am going to
spend that time on abundance and so... oh if you hear baby girl she's in her crib
behind me. Hopefully she'll last through this video.
But, looking at abundance... I've just spent a lot of time, I want to really work on
my youtube channel and more content for you all that is
valuable, that would be helpful. If you have any suggestions of what you would
like to see from this channel I would love to hear that in the comments down
below. Anything that would be
good for mommy videos. That would help you or Christian mommy videos as in
what would be helpful in helping you raise your children to love Jesus and
show Jesus to the world ? This channel isn't so much about and I'm
going to have a new channel trailer upcoming as well. If that is already up I
will post that in the links down below in the description box down below but if
it's not up it's coming. My channel has kind of evolved over the
past year but I want to do content that helps you at home to bring Jesus' love
to your children and help you raise Jesus loving children.
I believe that Jesus's love should be shared to everyone and I want my
children to share the love with everyone and not be judgmental and not be yeah
just to be kind as Jesus was kind. But anyways I'll get more into that in my
channel trailer. Alright you guys, so that didn't last very long in her crib. She's
down here. I'm not sure if you can see her or not. She's going to be sitting in
my lap. 2017 was amazing! I saw so much growth
over my maternity leave. I went from about 150 subscribers to
over 400 and that is just amazing to me. I can't thank you all enough for
your support and encouragement of my channel. I know it's been taking me a
little while to figure out what this channel is all about but I think I've
got it nailed down pretty much for now. I am really looking forward to more
growth in 2018. One of my videos just went crazy and got over 75,000 views
which I can't even imagine! I mean, my channel is at around 470 subscribers
right now and that's more than the number of people who attend my church on
a Sunday morning. I can't even imagine standing up in front of you all
and speaking to you all. That's a lot of people. For that one video... I can't
imagine describing three games, three Christmas games to 77,000 people!
Standing up in front of and telling you all three Christmas games. That's
pretty crazy. I have really enjoyed this channel. It started out as a hobby and has
grown to be so much more than that for myself and hopefully for you all. Its
branched out into a website and an online shop. My husband and I are
collaborating on things. If you didn't know, he is a cartoonist as well as being
a pastor and so we're just having a lot of fun with it, with the channel. I look
forward to 2018. Thanks so much for watching today's video on my 2018 word
which is my focus for the whole year. If you also have a word, I would love to
hear it and I'm sure the rest of the community would as well so leave that in
the comments down below. I post new content every week, Tuesdays are my
Christian parenting content and Wednesdays are my mommy videos. I
will see you in the next video. Thanks for watching! I wanted to come back on
really quick and share my cell phone cover with you all. One of the
greatest ways you can motivate yourself for 2018 is putting on a new cell phone
cover. Seriously! Whatever you put on your cell phone cover you see it constantly
so it needs to be something motivating. For me, "girl boss" means taking
control of my 2018, putting out more content on my youtube video, and coming
up and collaborating with awesome new faith products that we can provide... that
husband and I can provide for free to you all as well as paid. Because you know
we got to support our family somehow. She is holding a chai tea
latte cup not a coffee cup because I am a chai tea addict. This case is
from Casetify. I will post in the description box where I bought it but no
not sponsored. I don't have any sponsored videos you guys! Just put on a motivating
case. It could be any case on your phone. Serious serious motivation.
yeah alright bye you guys!
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