IT IS TIME TO EMBRACE

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Last year I picked my word of the year to be BELIEVE. I really didn’t give it much thought at the time. I was pretty pleased with the word, I thought it would be an easy word to focus on. However, believing is not always easy, especially when the odds seem to be stacked against you. There are times when I could see my belief in action and there were times when I said that I believed but in my heart, I knew that I was really doubting. The word was harder to put into action that I thought it would be.

It is easy to believe when you know the outcome. It is easy to believe when the outcome is trivial and isn’t important. I feel like I have grown this year in my belief and I want to continue to carry this word with me into the new year. However, yesterday I picked a new word to start 2018 with.

First off, I wanted to let God pick my word for me instead of me. I wasn’t sure exactly how to do that but here is what I decided to do. I searched and came up with these words as possibilities… Then I went to www.wheeldecide.com and typed each word into the wheel. After I applied the changes to the wheel, I held my breathe and hit the spin wheel button.  I wanted to hit the spin button again. What did this mean? What am I supposed to embrace? I wanted something that I could understand like family, trust, or dream. What am I supposed to do with EMBRACE???

I took a couple of deep breaths and decided to start thinking about what this word meant. By definition it means:

  • hold (someone) closely in one’s arms, especially as a sign of affection.
  • accept or support (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically.

Then I looked up synonyms for Embrace and found things like hug, encompass, cherish and choose. There are also words like accommodate, take on, grasp, and adopt. The antonyms are just as important. Like NOT rejecting, denying, spurning, or distrusting.

I look forward to growing this coming year with Embrace. Embracing my faith, my journey, my failures and successes will all be an adventure, one that I will embrace.

Tell me your word for 2018.

Have A Blessed Day!

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  1. Last year God gave me the word WAIT. For this ‘Git ‘er done’ kind of girl, I was, well, disappointed! But I took that word and thought about (or it was spoken to me or read by me) saw, heard or thought it almost every single day last year. I have grown in patience. This year the Lord has put PRAY on my heart and I, once again, delve into the study of prayer. Blessings on you and yours as you celebrate Christ this season.

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  2. What a beautiful entry. Thank you for sharing and my best wishes for a year following your word, embrace. My word for 2017 was Joy and I chose it after my mom passed later in 2016. I needed to remember that Joy still lived all around me. Now, I just lost my Grandma this past weekend. She was the matriarch of my family and I admired her immensely. With my Grandfather, she raised ten children – some hers, some his, and one they created together. Her heart was huge and her spirit very gentle. I have been so sad about losing her that I wasn’t sure I could choose a word for 2018, but I saw the choosing wheel you shared here and gave it a try. I wrote words like believe, reflect, volunteer, listen, patience, generosity, pray, charity, family, and joy. But the wheel chose for me what I think God chose for me, Nurture. I’ll be studying this word in the coming days, and I am sure my Grandmother – and my mother – will be in my heart as I do. Thanks, Tania. Merry Christmas and God Bless.

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  3. Choose wisely will be my words for 2018. I believe I can hear. God speak about every decision in my life and it will guide me in choosing the BEST not just good or better but the BEST….

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  4. I like this word! I have used “still waters” as my phrase for the past several years because I wanted my life to be still waters in the midst of so much of the chaos I felt around me. I may switch to embrace because I think it’s where I need to be this next year– embracing what life has for me– the good and the bad!! It’s all part of the journey!!

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  5. Charlcy Green says:

    How nice that you do this! Mine is HOPE which I knew as soon as I saw it. I need to concentrate on that.

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