Okay so it is December 27th today, not quite January 1st! However, as many of you know each year David & I select a word for the year for our family. (This will be #3!) And... we have already selected one. Well, I actually yelled it out over a week ago and further discussed it with David prior to Christmas and he agreed... I think ;-) I thought about waiting to tell you all about it until December 31st or January 1st... but seeing as my level of patience is well, not the best... I have decided to share it with you all here on my blog, on the 2nd day AFTER Christmas! Many of you may wonder what I am referring to. A few years back, I heard someone on the radio saying that instead of a list of resolutions each year, they focused on ONE word to focus on the for their family. In 2013, we focused on FAITH. This was an especially hard one but necessary one as we lost 2 babies and I was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism this year. Some people say you get what you ask for. I say you trust God and get what you get ;-) God knew what our year would look like long before all of that went down. As a result of the hardships, we found out more about my health and how to deal with it and how to approach future pregnancies. I know we also learned a lot about our wonderfully FAITHful God!
In 2014, we hemmed back and forth and settled on CONTENTMENT for the year. I do not think we were quite 100% at this point. We were looking at where we had come from and knew we still had to wait for a clearance on my lungs and what that might mean for my health and our family down the road. We were talking more about normal, everyday things and not just trying to survive. We did not want to get complacent but we did not want to take anything for granted either. God had brought us through some truly hard, life-altering circumstances and we certainly could not and would not try to erase them. I will admit this one has been quite the struggle in comparison. Go figure, right?! It seems when life circumstances are not so drastic, we often try to take things into our own hands more than we should. God and I did a lot of talking this year about frustrations and my own struggles to trust Him and be content where He had us. And frankly, I do not know if I came out a better person for all of the arguing I actually did. Yep, arguing. As I said, this one was quite the struggle for me in the later months of the year...
This brings me to our word of 2015 which I think fits perfectly for where we are and where we WANT to be! We are Striving. We are Moving Forward. We want to Succeed and see things Change for the Better... We.. Want... To...
For us this means NO MORE Complaining about not being able to do things, about David's bosses not letting him off work to be with us, about not making enough money, or "feeling" happy enough. It is not dependent on our neighbors to change their ways (whether we agree with them or not, which we most certainly do not). It is not dependent on whether we make others happy all the time. It is not our job to make everyone else in our lives happy all of the time either! It is however about taking responsibility and seizing each opportunity that comes our way! We have chances to change and be better for it and make a better life for our children. And I pray we truly seek God in it all and choose to make those decisions that will help us LIVE!!!
So join with us and think about what it is that would make 201?5 the BEST YEAR no matter what is thrown your way. What will YOU DO? I have some ideas for you popping up on my Facebook page over the next week or two so stay tuned...
As always,
Melis
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