A Look Back... Our Top 16 Posts in 2016 and a little review...

We are linking up our Top 16 posts from this year over at Kate Motaung's place this week... 

I started doing this Year in Review about three or four years ago and I love it because it makes me gives me the chance to look back through the blog and see which posts got the most traffic and which ones stirred up the most conversations in the Comment section! However, last year got out of hand in the review... it was a mini ebook.

We're not doing that again... ain't nobody got time for that!

So this year, I am just picking the post with the most conversation and at the end, I will list the TOP 16 posts with the most traffic (which will mostly be from my 31 Days series this year!)

So... here is 2016 in Review:



January: 
How To Take Back Time: Be Present! - A Five Minute Friday post

February:
What I Learned in January... A Link Up with Emily P. Freeman

March:
Celebrating TEN YEARS of Blogging with a Giveaway

April:
Finding Lovely Everywhere I Look...

May:
When Small Wonders Add Up To Kingdom

June:
When It's Vital (and Humbling) To Know Who He Says You Are

July:
How To Build A {New} Life: Take Notice of the Light

August:
The Happiness Dare - Everyone Should Play Along, Because Who Couldn't Use a Lot More Happy?

September:

When You Are Longing For a Path to Take You Away - A Five Minute Friday post

October:
Praying Through Parenting - Part 1: Parenting Littles and Not So Littles

November:
In Honor of Thanksgiving... and Gilmore Girls: a Giveaway for your Holiday Weekend!

December:
When New Traditions Take Root - An InCourage Guest Post


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So... now, the TOP 16 posts of 2016 in this little corner of the Interwebs... these are the posts with the most traffic:

#16 - What IF... a Post If:Gathering post.

#15 - When Healing Requires Forgiveness

#14 - When It's Your Soul That Needs Healing...

#13 - 31 Days of Life Happens... and so We Pray! Praying the Psalms - Ps103

#12 - Life Happens (Inside the Walls of Church) ...and so we pray!

#11 - Listening Prayer (Day 16 of 31 Days of Life Happens...)

#10 - 31 Days of Life Happens... and so We Pray! MAIL - a Five Minute Friday Post.

#9 - The Happiness Dare - Everyone Should Play Along, Because Who Couldn't Use a Lot More Happy?

#8 - Life Happens... Praying for Our Family and Friends

#7 - Praying for Your Marriage (31 Days of Life Happens... and so we pray!)

#6 - National Healing... Praying For Our Nation (31 Days of Life Happens... and so we pray!)

#5 - Praying the Psalms

#4 - Praying Through Parenting - Part 2: Parenting Teens and the Transition of Moving Out!

#3 - 31 Days of Life Happens... and so we pray - Physical Healing

#2 - Praying Through Parenting - Part 1: Parenting Littles and Not So Littles

And the post this year that attracted the most traffic here at Abiding Love, Abounding Grace was actually not here technically!  It was my guest post over at Incourage.me :

#1 - There Is No Shadow of Turning... What It Looks Like to be Loyal.


In addition to the blog world this year, I also had the honor of doing a few speaking engagements, as well as packaging one of the series written here into an eBook on Amazon!  I don't know about you... but right around this time? Yeah... I could use the reminder to Rest in Him.  You, too?

IF YOU ARE FINDING YOURSELF IN NEED OF REST (WHICH --WHO ISN'T, REALLY?) CHECK OUT THIS SHORT, DAILY DEVOTIONAL  31 DAYS OF RESTING IN GOD ...IT'S EASIER/HARDER THAN YOU THINK!  

YOU CAN PURCHASE IT BY CLICKING HERE OR GRABBING IT FROM THE SIDE BAR TO THE RIGHT IF REST IS SOMETHING YOU KNOW YOU NEED, BUT JUST KEEP PUTTING OFF! 


As 2016 winds down, I am reminded of the word the Lord gave me for it: Hope in God... for Hope does not disappoint.  Oh man, did we ever need HOPE this year, right?

Merry Christmas, friends!

I'm praying you encounter our King in a powerful way over the next few days!



Check back next week for a guest post from new Author, Kelly Balarie, as well as my post on ALL THE BOOKS and a WRAP UP post on my OneWord365, where I'll reveal my new word for 2017!  Then a little later, on January 1st, I'll be writing my annual post after my date with God, where I'll share what I believe is a Prophetic Word for the New Year!

Linking up with Kate Motaung and the #fmfparty Community today.  Five Minute Fridays gives us the chance to dive right in and share what He puts on our hearts! Click HERE to read more Top 16 posts for this special edition of Five Minute Friday. 

The FMF lowdown: The gathering happens on Twitter on Thursday nights & then we write our hearts out & hit publish all over the interwebs on Thursday & Friday (& sometimes on Tuesdays!) It's where we encourage & uplift... where we share prayer requests & praise reports... where we talk food & friends & we find support & kindred hearts. It's where we are reminded that life is good & God is good & we're not alone... & then we all write for five minutes flat, a flash mob of wordsmiths letting our hearts & our fingers do the talking tapping & we hit publish before we can second guess it all away. We'd love to have you join us!

I'm also linking up with the lovely writer community linked below:

LORI SCHUMAKER FOR #MOMENTSOFHOPE

JENNIFER DUKES LEE FOR #TELLHISSTORY

#FreshMarketFriday...