5 Grace-Filled Reflection Questions to End Your Year with God
As we stand at the edge of a new calendar page, there’s often pressure to rush into goals, resolutions, and fresh starts.
But I want to invite you to do something different.
Something slower.
Something deeper.
Before you map out your next steps, what if you took a moment to pause with Jesus and reflect on the road you’ve just traveled?
Not with pressure or judgment.
But with gentle curiosity.
The kind that says, “I want to notice what God has done.”
Because I’ve found that meaningful change rarely begins with a plan.
It begins with a pause.
If you can carve out even 15 quiet minutes, I’d love to offer you five grace-filled questions to sit with. You might journal them, talk them through with a friend, or simply hold them in prayer.
These questions aren’t here to fix anything.
They’re here to help you pay attention.
1. Where did I see God’s faithfulness this year—in both expected and unexpected ways?
It could be something obvious—a prayer answered, a door opened, a moment of provision.
But often, His faithfulness shows up in quiet, ordinary places:
A strength you didn’t know you had.
Peace that made no sense.
The right word from the right person, just in time.
Month by month, pause and ask: Where did I feel carried?
2. What area of my life felt most aligned with my values or with God’s design?
Where did you feel most like yourself this year?
Which moments felt light, life-giving, rooted?
Maybe it was a daily rhythm that worked well, a commitment you stepped back from, or time spent with your people that actually filled you up.
Ask: What part of my life felt like it was flowing from the inside out?
3. What did I carry this year that wasn’t mine to carry?
Pressure.
Unrealistic expectations.
Responsibility for things outside your control.
Sometimes, the weight we feel most isn’t from what we’re doing—it’s from what we’re holding.
Ask gently: What am I still carrying that God never asked me to hold?
Naming it is often the first step toward setting it down.
4. What’s one thing I learned this year that I want to take into the next?
The Lord is always teaching, stretching, and refining us.
Sometimes the lessons are loud—born of challenge or change.
Other times, they’re quiet…whispers we didn’t realize we’d picked up along the way.
What truth did you learn that changed how you show up?
Let’s carry that wisdom with us.
5. What kind of woman do I want to become in the next season and what’s one small step toward her?
Not what do you want to do.
Who do you want to be?
What fruit of the Spirit are you craving?
What kind of mom, wife, friend, or leader do you long to become?
Ask: What’s one faithful step toward her today?
It doesn’t have to be big.
Sometimes the smallest steps lead to the deepest change.
These questions don’t need to be answered all at once.
But they are a gift—a quiet breath in the midst of a noisy world.
A way to end the year with intention instead of exhaustion.
And if you’d love a steady space to process your answers, I’ve opened a few Reset Coaching Sessions for this purpose.
Together, we’ll gently look at your life through the lens of faith, season, and what matters most and help you step into the next chapter from a place of peace.
You don’t have to sprint into the new year.
You can walk slowly with Jesus.
And sometimes, that changes everything.
Melina is the founder of Melina Kane Coaching, a certified Christian Life Coach in Texas (servicing Austin, Cedar Park, Round Rock, Georgetown, and Pflugerville). She loves helping Christian women anchor their homes, hearts, and habits in God’s design for their life. She’s an Enneagram 2 + recovering perfectionist who’s never met a stranger, so come say Hi! on Instagram @melinakanecoaching.
