One Word

K-Love radio station is my favorite. I listen to it most of the time. If you don't know, it's a wonderful contemporary Christian music station with the the tag line positive and encouraging. It is exactly that!

Recently one of the on-air hosts was recommending a Web site www.MyOneWord.org.  The premise is the futility of New Year's resolutions. How many times have you made a resolution fully determined to stick to it only to have given up by spring? That is totally what I would do.  Usually I would determine to lose weight or eat healthier.  It just never seemed to work.  Honestly, as long as there is chocolate and potatoes in the world, I don't have a chance!

However, the My One Word site instead suggests picking just one word for the year. This one word should reflect something that God is going to do internally in your life this year.  On the other hand, resolutions are usually an external change that you decide to make on your own. I've heard people talk about their "word for the year" but never really grasped the purpose behind this practice.  Check out the site. It makes sense.

So for this year I'll try another new thing and make my word Renewal. Renewal in my spirit and in my mind. I really believe this is a God thing. Beginning with my decision to go back to school.  Yes, my daughter finally got me headed in that direction, but I have to believe that God's hand was in the situation.  Everything this year so far is moving in the direction of new things - renewal.  I'm excited about the prospects and a little afraid. But with the Lord on my side, I can do this!

On the college front, I've had a lot of reading to get done and four quizzes to do before class on the thirteenth.  I have read 4 chapters so far and took the four quizzes.  I am now at a 96.3%.  I really hope to keep to 100% for a least a little while!  But it's okay.  Some of the questions are a bit tricky, and sometimes I tend to over-think.  I should know to go with my first instinct and not second guess myself.

Still having weird dreams though.  The chapter I was reading before bed last night was on research. My dreams had me freaking out because my husband threw out my Reader's Digest magazines and I was convinced I needed them for my research!  It was tense in my dream.  When I got up today, though, I had to laugh because I don't get the Reader's Digest and wouldn't be using that for research anyways. My nerves are still a bit on edge and it's only been one class!

That's about all I can think of for today.  Talk to you all again soon!