HONORING THE YEAR THAT WAS
- Teri Angel
- Dec 27, 2025
- 3 min read
“Reflection transforms experiences into wisdom that guides your future.” Unknown
As we move gently toward the closing pages of 2025, many people naturally pause to look back. Year’s end has a way of inviting reflection—sometimes softly, sometimes insistently. For some, the memories surface with regret or sadness. For others, they glow with joy and gratitude. And for a few, the year feels like a blur, its days slipping quietly past without much recollection at all. If you are one who reflects at year’s end, I invite you to try something a little different this time. Set aside the headlines. Release the pull of global events, politics, and the collective noise of the world. Instead, turn your attention inward. This reflection is not about what happened around you—it is about what happened within you.
Ask yourself:
What did I experience personally this year?
What moments shaped me?
Where did I feel joy, growth, challenge, or grace?
How did I walk upon the earth, and what energy did I leave behind?
As you consider the year through this lens, notice where you fall. Was your year colored mostly by regret, by joy, or by forgetfulness? There is no right or wrong answer—only awareness. For me, I can say with a grateful heart that I look back on this year with happiness and joy. It has been phenomenal in ways both large and subtle. I am thankful for each day I was gifted breath, presence, and purpose. And my prayer, always, is that in my walking, my listening, my speaking, and my being, I was able to spread a little more joy and peace into the world. Reflection, when done with honesty and compassion, does not trap us in the past. Instead, it alchemizes our experiences into wisdom—wisdom that becomes a lantern lighting the path ahead.
Dear Angels, as we reflect on this past year, how can we turn our experiences—both joyful and difficult—into wisdom that truly guides our future?
Dear Ones, reflection is the sacred bridge between experience and wisdom. When you look back without judgment, you reclaim the gifts hidden within every moment. Joy shows you what aligns with your soul; challenges reveal where you grew stronger, more compassionate, or more aware. Do not measure your year by accomplishments alone, nor by what the world applauded or criticized. Measure it by the truth of your heart. Ask not, “Was it perfect?” but rather, “Was I present?”
Each experience you lived—remembered or forgotten—left an imprint of learning within you. When you consciously reflect, you gather those imprints and weave them into understanding. That understanding becomes your compass. It guides future choices, softens fear, and strengthens trust in your own inner knowing. Release regret, for it teaches nothing when held tightly. Embrace gratitude, for it expands wisdom effortlessly. And remember: every step you took this year, even the uncertain ones, moved you closer to remembering who you truly are. Walk forward now with the wisdom you have earned, and let the coming year be shaped not by repetition, but by conscious creation.
We walk with you always.
Angels Whisper: What you honor in reflection becomes wisdom in motion. Carry forward only what nourishes your soul, and let the rest gently fall away.
Today, I promise to remember moments and hold onto the joy that remembrance brings to my life.
Teri Angel is a Happiness Coach, energy healer, best-selling author, spiritual teacher and mentor, and a motivational speaker. Teri is an International Peace Ambassador and the founder of a nonprofit organization, Angelspeakers Inc., which offers educational workshops and events centered around environmental awareness to include animals and nature, peace advocacy opportunities and ancient wisdom teachings. Teri’s movement “Peas For Peace” involves strengthening our awareness of the oneness of all, unifying mankind through compassion, peace, love and joy. She was named "She Who Blesses the Sacred Land" during the Peace On Earth Tour and embraces that title with loving grace. www.angelspeakers.com
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