25 Things I Learned 2025 at age 25
I love a good listicle, so here goes. 25 lessons I learned in 2025. I have actually been doing this since at least 22, but I didn’t have a backup of my website when it accidentally got wiped a while back. So I am starting up again.
- Don’t walk in the counsel of ungodliness.
- If you do number 1 it will lead you to places you don’t want to be. Directions from ungodly people can lead you to some ungodly places even if it’s unintended.
- Other people’s anxiety is not meant to be shared.
- Anxiety can lead to wickedness. Psalm 139:23 – 24
- I really hate gossip. It’s made me look inward and focus on my own household. If my laundry isn’t done and dishes aren’t washed, I have no business focusing outward to talk about anyone else’s life. There is always something to work on at home.
- Yah deals with EACH person how He sees fit. Pray for them without taking on their individual responsibilities.
- Taking on another individual’s tasks handicaps them. It’s not helpful.
- An individual’s task/ responsibility is anything they directly receive a reward or consequence as a result of.
- Walking alone at times can be a necessity when pursuing righteousness. Don’t hang around people who constantly try to pull you into sin.
- You can’t save people from their own suffering or even their testimony.
- We all have to account to the Father for our own lives. I’ve spent the entire year trying to distinguish between those who want an explanation from me and those who are actually entitled to one. An example of the latter would be my spouse, the former may be an acquaintance.
- As I turned 25 this year, I had to be realistic about sticking to what I am actually responsible for.
- I.e. my faith, my home, the well-being of my child and husband.
- This year I let go of relationships to pursue righteousness.
- Even though I pointed out which Bible verses I was using, some family and friends remain unconvinced
- I learned I had to stop asking for advice from people who do not have the same end goal as me. If I have a friend who likes to drink and club, they shouldn’t be my advisor on moral dilemmas. Psalm 1:1
- I think this one is actually the most important. I started counting my blessings. Writing them down and seeing Yah’s faithfulness on my bad days has breathed new life into my faith.
- Forgiveness. Not only forgiving others but forgiving all of my shortcomings and making a commitment to do better.
- I’m working on walking in the calling I feel in my heart, even when it doesn’t make sense and I don’t feel qualified.
- I don’t have to have a plan for everything. It will always be wise to fear Yah over people.
- You should be holding on to Yah more than you hold on to everyone else.
- Sometimes the offense that other people feel comes from you walking in the Truth. When they see you walk in the Spirit it will always offend those who enjoy the fruit of the world. John 1:5
- Women who buy into cultural lies will fight tooth and nail for you to live in discord with your spouse.
- I.e. gossip or trying to get you to divulge your husband’s faults, saying they would never tolerate certain things “if” they were a wife, saying that the Biblical commandments for wives are outdated, etc.
- This one is pretty silly, but here goes. I am completely willing and capable of learning a new skill to avoid customer service.
- 2025 is the year I have severed any relationship I had with the nail salon. I started doing my nails at home. I actually took the time to figure out what worked and how to make it last.
- Breaking down responsibilities into tasks makes them easier to look forward to. If it is something that you must, do there is no need to dread it. Reframe it.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12; 2 Corinthians 10; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Hebrews 12:1-2
- Anytime I lower myself to the bad habits of the people I am in the company of, it wrecks me. This was the year that my Father really clocked me on involving myself in affairs I didn’t pray about.
- I am the type of person who is resourceful. So when someone needs help. I am happy to research and provide them with resources. Then I become so emotionally involved in whether or not things work out for them that I am stressed watching them sin. I had to really sit in the revelation that my focus had shifted from the Lord’s will for my life to helping people who were unwilling to help themselves.
- Now, I say a prayer when someone tells me stressful news without offering to help. I think it is different when someone asks you for help though. I am going to take your problem to The Most High, if you don’t want that then okay. I can listen and pray to The Most High about how I feel about it. Then refocus on my own personal responsibilities.
- This the year that although I was conscious of being disliked I found the courage to be ok with it.
- There were years when I knew people didn’t like me. As a parentified oldest daughter it ate at my soul. My childhood conditioned me to apologize without understanding. In addition to that, I was always thinking I was in the wrong and essentially living in self-doubt.
- This one is by far the most important to me. I have been reading the courage to be disliked.
- John 15:18-27; Galatians 1:10
- The rest of my life will be the best of my life. My focus is on The Most High and walking in my calling.
- I know in 2025 I was obnoxious. I would have family members call me to rehash traumatic events from the past and I had to shut it down. I repeated that the rest of my life will be the best of my life until I believed it. Whoever hurt me I forgave them. I have a lot more time to be an adult than I did as a child. These days I am living in the choices that I’ve made and the grace that The Most High provides.
P.S. Check out the poem “Our Deepest Fear” by Marianne Williamson if you have never heard it. I couldn’t stop thinking about it as I wrote my last points. I have copied and pasted it down below.
Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
P.S.S I’ve always personally seen my boldness for life and the Lord as a personal liberation for others who were struggling with self-forgiveness. Hopefully this listicle helps you.
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