The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year ! If the blossoms were liable to change — if they were to become capricious and irregular — they might excite more surprise, more curiosity, but we should love them less; they…
Walk is an interesting word for the year because it is ubiquitous. The idea of travel by foot is everywhere – both implied and spelled out – in the scriptures. It is also very both a metaphor as well as an action. As I’ve been reading, I’ve noticed so many ways we refer to the…
I was really excited to be making all of these connections early in the year and thinking through them – how the body should and should not be used. I was also excited to be “getting my steps” more regularly again. I felt like things were getting back on track.
This past week several of us from the Homeschool Better Together team took a planning course. It is for women entrepreneurs and is definitely from a secular perspective. We were reviewing it on several different levels and there were good things we liked and things we didn’t all mixed up together. One of the first…
I chose keep for 2023 largely because it was all over the Psalms, particularly my reading of Psalm 119. It’s over and over and over again. Keep your law, keep your testimonies, keep statutes, keep my way … 27! Twenty Seven times in Psalm 119 we are told to keep … something. But, even already,…
Do you have a Word for the Year for 2023? Have you started considering how you’re going to approach it, think about it, implement it? Have you ever done a Word for the Year before? Was it a helpful exercise? Why or why not? My word for 2023 is going to be “keep” … I…
How can I actively seek God and His kingdom, promote Him among men, and engage in His world?
For 2020 I wanted a verb that included the idea of “enthusiasm.” I toyed with using “enthuse,” but decided that it had too much … cynicism intrinsic in the very word itself. I want to be positive with enthusiasm; interested; participatory in a good way, interested with . As I thought more and more about…
I’m not in love with the word I’ve chosen for my 2019 Word for the Year, but I can’t seem to get away from it. That generally means it’s the right one. There were a lot of contenders: Commit. Pray. Engage. Speak. Interact. All perfectly good words in themselves and a lot to consider over…
I’ve been procrastinating on sharing my Word for the Year because it’s really not glamorous and has some connotations that readers might think it odd. But, I suppose you’re mostly used to me. The word I chose for last year – }pacify{ was a struggle in writing but not thinking nor in making attempts at…