A Word to Last the Year

When it comes the beginning of a new year, there are two types of people - those who set new year’s resolutions and those who pick one word.  I’m the latter.

I usually pick a word and by week three of the year, it was just that...a word.

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I, generally, pray over my yearly word and pick out a verse for it.  But this year, I prayed, researched, cried, and poured over my word.

I started with a list of words.  Actually my word wasn’t even on the list.  The word came after picking 4 words and combining them into one word.  The four words I was down to were:

1 - Discover

2 - Wonder

3 - New

4 - Transform/Metamorphosis

From there, the webbing began to find that one word.  And then I found it. And I studied it. I learned about it.  I learned its patterns, its characteristics, its nuances….

And so I chose to do something different with this word.  I’m taking it in little-by-little.

And so this is how I’m starting with this word:

I will return her vineyards to her

   and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope.

She will give herself to me there,

   as she did long ago when she was young,

   when I freed her from her captivity in Egypt.

Hosea 2:15

I’m starting my the vineyards - the place where I gave God my life when I was young, the place of freedom from my Egypt, the place of hope, the place of transformation.

This is just week 3.  I have 49 more weeks to go - so much to learn, so many steps to take.  Maybe I’ll make the record books among the few that keep up their resolutions and words for the whole year.