Welcome to 2026 at RHW Ministries

A Year of Healing, Hope, and Holy Renewal

As we step into a brand-new year, my heart feels tender, grateful, and expectant. If you’re reading this today, I want you to know something right from the start:

You are not alone on your journey.

This past year has been stretching for many of us — physically, emotionally, spiritually. Maybe you’ve carried old wounds that resurfaced. Maybe you’ve been navigating health challenges, fear, or fatigue. Maybe life has felt like more than you could hold.

But here’s the beautiful truth:

God has been with you every single step.
And He will continue to carry you into this new year with grace, strength, and hope.

As I prayed over the direction of RHW for 2026, the Lord gently impressed one theme on my heart:

Healing.

Not quick-fix healing.
Not pressured healing.
But the slow, tender, intentional healing that Jesus does as we walk with Him day by day.

That’s the heart behind every column I’ll be sharing with you this year.

Your RHW Journey for 2026

Each Friday has a purpose — gentle, steady, and rooted in Scripture.

🌿 1st Friday — Recovery Reframed

We’ll take an honest look at the places women run when life becomes too heavy.
Not with shame.
Not with judgment.
But with compassion and Christ-centered hope.
Each month, we’ll uncover a new struggle and discover the healing Jesus offers in the middle of it.

✨ 2nd Friday — Running the Race (Hebrews Study)

Hebrews is a book of endurance, encouragement, and spiritual maturity.
This study will help us keep our eyes on Jesus — especially when we feel tired, distracted, or discouraged.
Think of this as your monthly “faith reset.”

🌸 3rd Friday — The Healing Journey

These posts will speak directly to the deeper places of your heart.
The emotional places.
The weary places.
The places that need rest, comfort, and gentle truth.
Each month, we’ll explore one facet of personal and spiritual healing.

📘 **4th Friday — Book Study (Joyce Meyer: Answers to Anxiety)**

This book has been a gift to me, and I believe it will bless you too.
We’ll walk through it together, one chapter at a time, pulling out practical wisdom and biblical encouragement for everyday peace.

🌼 5th Friday — Reviews & Sacred Pause Features

When a month gives us a 5th Friday, we’ll enjoy something lighter:

- a spiritual review
- a worship spotlight
- a devotional reflection
- or a simple “sacred pause” to breathe and rest
  These posts will be gentle and refreshing.

My Heart for You This Year

If you feel tired… discouraged… anxious… or simply ready for a fresh start, this space is for you.
My prayer is that RHW becomes a quiet sanctuary — a place to breathe, reset, and receive from the Lord.

This year is not about striving.
It’s not about perfection.
It’s not about doing more.

It’s about walking closely with Jesus and letting Him tend to the wounds we often try to hide.

He sees you.
He loves you.
And He delights in healing what hurts.

A Prayer to Begin the Year

Lord, thank You for carrying us into a new year filled with hope and possibility.
Meet us in the places that ache.
Heal the wounds we’ve carried for far too long.
Strengthen us where we feel weak.
Lead us gently into the plans You have for us in 2026.
May this be a year of deeper peace, fuller joy, and unexpected healing.
We trust You, Jesus — one step, one breath, one day at a time.
Amen.

As we close, I invite you to receive this blessing with a quiet and open heart. This new lyric video of “The Blessing” featuring Andrea Bocelli with Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes, feels like holy ground. Let these words—rooted in Scripture and wrapped in worship—rest over you as God’s covering for the year ahead. May His presence go before you, and behind you, and beside you, all around you and give you peace.

REACHING HURTING WOMEN MINISTRIES OFFERS FOUR TOPICS FOR CONTEMPLATION EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR. EACH TOPIC IS A 12-MONTH STUDY SERIES ASSIGNED TO A SPECIFIC FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH. IN MONTHS WITH FIVE FRIDAYS WE’RE REVIEWING CHRISTIAN MEDIA.

On the fourth Friday of each month in 2022 we’re studying the RHW 2022 Theme: God’s Law, Grace & Freedom.

“Without God’s law and grace there is no opportunity for recovery from any addiction and therefore no true freedom!”

Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. ~ Genesis 2:8-9 (MSG)

God created people for relationship with Him. He wanted them to be free to live with and love Him. God gave people the ability and opportunity to make choices. We can obey and be rewarded with a happy life and relationship with God. Or we can disobey and suffer painful consequences personally and in our relationship with God.

The Law in the Garden

God commanded the Man, “You can eat from any tree in the garden, except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don’t eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you’re dead.” ~ Genesis 2:15-17. (MSG)

Adam and Eve only had one law to follow. Pretty simple compared to Old Testament Biblical laws and our modern standards of law keeping. Among all of creation God gave only Adam and Eve the ability to think, reason, gain knowledge and make decisions using their knowledge. Most people aren’t content with what they have. We have an innate desire for knowing and experiencing life; whether that includes suffering or not. When given the choice, many will take the risk of knowing both sides of the good and evil. And so Eve took Satan’s bait and the human race has been suffering the consequences ever since.

Freedom in the Garden

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the land, and conquer it. Rule over the fish of the sea, the flying creatures of the sky, and over every animal that crawls on the land. I have just given you every green plant yielding seed that is on the surface of the whole land, and every tree, which has the fruit of a tree yielding seed. They are to be food for you. Also for every wild animal, every flying creature of the sky and every creature that crawls on the land which has life, every green plant is to be food.” So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. ~ Genesis 1:28-30

Adam and Eve had freedom unlike any other humans have experienced. They had the freedom to walk and talk with God in their garden paradise home. They had the perfect life. But they didn’t know how perfect it was until it was gone. We often take for granted the goodness that God has bestowed on us.

Grace in the Garden

And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife. ~ Genesis 3:21

Adam and Eve were created in the state of God’s amazing grace. With their incredible freedom came the ability choose between good and evil. And even when they disobeyed God and ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil He still loved them. They experienced God’s first act of grace, foreshadowing the future redemption of the human race, when He shed the blood of an animal and covered them with its skin.

Choose Life

I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today: I place before you Life and Death, Blessing and Curse. Choose life so that you and your children will live. ~ Deuteronomy 30:19

God’s love is free and unconditional but His law, grace and freedom have conditions. In the same way there are unbreakable, unchangeable laws of nature and physics, God’s laws have set requirements and results that don’t change and can’t be broken without a consequence. Thankfully, Jesus came to save us from the consequences of our sin. However, it is up to us to make the right choice. Do we want life or death? Choose life!