A friend, Kirsten Stensaas Jackson, posted today on Facebook: “What’s your word for the year?” Her words were, “too powerful, too loving, too whole, and too magical. Be too sparkly.”
Nice words that inspired my blog this week.
First of all let me tell you about Kirsten. She was widowed at a young age and ministers to other widows on Facebook—the Grief Douala. Her Facebook page is open to the public. Another accomplishment includes a published book, Speaking of Joe available on amazon.com. Also, Kristen’s FB posts are very entertaining.
Getting back to My Words for the Year…
- An open heart…
- To contain all God has for me and wants for me in my life.
- New direction at His leading.
- New opportunities. Hopefully I won’t say no. That would also include letting go of fear for the new challenge ahead and trusting God.
- Unknown potential and hope.
But before I leap into the future, my heart is grateful for goals met:
Completing my book Coping Skills for Caregivers.
Also nearing completion is a memoir of caring for, my dad in his last year of life. The year was full of much pain and difficulty. Yet a year of God’s merciful touch and grace. Due to come out in early 2020.
So, what are your words for the New Year?
And what things are you grateful for in 2019?
May God’s love and blessings grace you in 2020.
Scripture/Prayer for the Coming Year
“May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself].” (Ephesians 3:16-21, AMP)
20 Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.
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