Annie’s Journal – Written by Annie Warner Donnelly
Hello Everyone. Have you thought about what you would like to champion in 2026? The word “champion” has a few meanings. Let’s use this one: “to defend something”.
In this Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, one thing we can do is search for the truth and defend it. Because peace in relationships has the capacity to change the world, let’s begin with them.
How often do we ignore the positive aspects of a person or an event and make the negative aspects the truth we tell? Ignoring the positive aspects means that we’re only telling half the truth.
How often do we deal with our lives in the same way? We may have had five good things happen to us during the day, but we give a single negative event power over us. Our need to see ourselves as doing everything well drives us to re-play what went wrong, what we could have said, what we could have done, perhaps even who we can blame.
The truth is that sometimes we build our view of ourselves with bricks of negative thoughts, thoughts that when mortared into place build a wall that keeps us in a prison of low self-esteem. There is no peace in a life strategy that supresses half the truth.
We were created to experience the joy of God’s salvation, to centre our beliefs in the word of God that always guides us and lifts us into our identity as children of the living Lord. Applying God’s word in all things removes the uncertainty of how to think and what to do next. Because God is love, the results of applying His word sustain peace in our lives.
Have the voices we’ve been hearing presented both the positive and negative aspects of people or events so that we can discover the truth, or have they only been interested in telling us their opinion of how we should view the people and their events?
In John 8:32, Jesus said, “… you will know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
Let’s become a champion at finding the truth and living it! Amen.