Last year my word for the year was intention.
It ripened in me leading to new discoveries about how I communicate in my family life. Going back to work was a huge adjustment not only for me, but for my girls and Murphy. As the year unfolded, I realized the necessity of being intentional in conversations with my family. Before I had functioned as the center 'hub' of family communication, but I no longer had that luxury.
Throughout the year, I have become more intentional with the exchange of thoughts and daily information in my evening conversations with the girls. Most days our family time with face-to-face communication is less than a few hours. I have become adamant about looking into their faces and 'jumping into their day.' Recognizing this lack of communication in my life has now become a high priority for me.
This year my word is freshness. I tend to believe that we let our glance rest a little too long on all those areas of our lives where we feel we have failed or not given our best.
Why else would we still make resolutions based on what has gone before?
It can be beneficial to glance backward over the past year if we do not stay there and center on our incompleteness. As long as we do not base all our vision of the new year on that backward glance, we can learn from what we see. But then we must move on. January is such a good time to deliberately set our steps forward, to begin again, to give ourselves over to the promises of the future.
Freshness.
That's it. That is what this new year is offering me as I pray to the God of my life this morning.
God is holding out freshness to me.
God is offering me a new beginning with this new year.
"No need to recall the past...See, I am doing a new deed."
"Now I am revealing new things to you...created just now, this very moment."
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