Inspiration and a Giggle

~Inspiration~

I vowed against New Year's Resolutions years ago,

instead choosing a word of the year for the past three years.

This year has changed me (already).

I wrote my word for the year on the bathroom mirror as a reminder.

I woke the next morning to this...

My darling eight year old daughter chose a resolution for the year and placed it next to my word.

How can I not adopt it as well?

Children are such wonderful teachers.

Word of the year...

Faith

Resolution...

Play By The Heart 

~Giggle~

This past December I attended my daughter's school Christmas concert. I stood in the back as the room was full. The kids were so much fun to watch. They oozed holiday cheer as if they had practiced with elves and sipped Christmas Kool-aid. Me? I knew their secret. He was standing to my left! Shhhhh...

Santa... er... Mr. School Janitor

Faith Continued

 I did not choose this year's word.

It chose me.

Faith

At first I was scared.

That's how I roll.

Fear.

How am I to tackle a year of faith?

I don't even know if I have faith?

What does faith even mean?

Letting go of control?

I work hard to have the little control I have!

That's when I realized that faith is the opposite of fear

and I have always lived holding the hand of fear.

My challenge is to drop fear's hand and pick up the hand of faith.

Faith

is 

trust

letting go

dreaming

believing in something bigger than ourselves

 

We get one shot at life

We must choose how to spend it.

Live dying

or

die living.

Faith.

Yeah.

I could use a good dose of that.

I'll give you five reasons I am choosing to work at walking in faith.

Christmas Day Nature Hike 2012

Faith Quotes

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.  ~Author Unknown

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.  ~David S. Muzzey

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.  ~Emmanuel

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.  ~Blaise Pascal

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel.  ~Author Unknown

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown    

2012

Happy New Year!!!!!

Are you a resolution person?

Do you pick a word for the year?

Do you say, "Not for me." and start your new year

where you left off the old one?

I used to make New Year Resolutions.

They lasted a week (tops).

Perhaps I aimed too high.

Perhaps I didn't take them seriously enough.

Perhaps I made them for all the wrong reason.

A few years ago I discovered the "word of the year" in blogland.

A word for the year.

A chosen word to work with for the year.

To represent the year.

To learn from and grow with over the year.

Two years ago I chose 'positivity'.

Perhaps it chose me.

It was a hard year but with my chosen word,

I was able to find and focus on the positive.

Positivity was a good choice but it did not feel deep or close to me.

Last year I chose the word 'focus' for the simple fact that I lacked any and all.

I figured I would choose it as I needed it desperately.

What did I learn from 'fucus'?

1. boy do I need it!

2. the word works better if it chooses you

 3. in order to focus, you must first know what you're focusing on

4. it's hard to focus with chronic pain

5. with a hubby and four kids, it's nearly impossible to focus!

(By year's end, I had completely forgotten my word, and it was 'focus'. Go figure.)

With 2012 quickly approaching, I started toying with a list of words.

I tried each on for size. Played with them, spoke them, wrote them.

Nothing seemed right so I gave up.

That's when the word of 2012 whispered in my ear.

My word for 2012 is

FAITH

... to be continued.

Do you have a word of the year? A resolution? Please tell!