Well, here it is the end of 2016 and I am posting my (planned... ya never know how that will go, ask Robbie Burns' mousie) one-word focus for 2017.
I am going with shalom. I like the way Cornelius Plantinga Jr presents that word in Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. At one point he writes:
And because I do not ever really get the whole one-word thing, I am mentally writing the word this way: shaLOm. I am using the L to remind me to Listen, a skill where I am very weak, and the O is not really the letter /O/ but a kind of sphere to remind me to Mind My Own Sphere of Dominion (and not everyone else's).
What about you? Have you got a one-word focus for the new year?
I am going with shalom. I like the way Cornelius Plantinga Jr presents that word in Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. At one point he writes:
In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.I want to focus on things becoming the way they are supposed to be, with wholeness and healing and all the deliciously dripping sweet fruits of the Spirit.
And because I do not ever really get the whole one-word thing, I am mentally writing the word this way: shaLOm. I am using the L to remind me to Listen, a skill where I am very weak, and the O is not really the letter /O/ but a kind of sphere to remind me to Mind My Own Sphere of Dominion (and not everyone else's).
What about you? Have you got a one-word focus for the new year?
my word this year is SEE.....to slow down and see the needs of others, to see what God wants me to do, to see others as He sees them.
ReplyDelete:) Sounds like a good word!
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