After reading on many blogs about people choosing a "word" for the year I began to think about choosing one as well. I had seen this done last year but really didn't have the time to commit to pick a word that really meant something, that I could relate to or use in my life.
Last year was a train wreck for me and my family. If it wasn't this, it was that. Having an eighteen year old doesn't help. You think they turn eighteen and move out...NOT. You want them to stay with you and never leave. The world is a scary place these days. It is definitely not what I grew up in. So, he is still here and growling about everything. I don't think he'll ever leave the comforts of home.
Finances went all over the place. More money for insurance, high co-pays and higher prescription cost with NO pay raise. How are we to keep living if this continues. I clip coupon after coupon and if there is no coupon, Sorry Charlie, we're not getting it. So far, we have managed to slip past two layoff's. I hope we slip past the next "Big One" in April 2011.
I am stressing more and more over little things in life. Things that I have zero control over. I can not change them, so why do I stress. I'm a Virgo and that should sum that up in one word. I want things done right the first time, it's that simple. You can choose to put the milk back or you can choose to hear me yell through the house to put it back in the refrigerator.
Having four boys is a challenge I love them and will never give up on them. I am training them right now, so the will always walk the right path in life. It's too easy today to come to the fork in the road and take the wrong path because of a choice you made or are about to make. We always have a choice, the only choice we don't have is to die. That's God's plan.
The one thing I did not have a lot of last year was Faith. I just couldn't see through the cloudy water that God was always there for me and was walking with me the whole way. We still have our home, cars, barn our health and families. We lost nothing of value last year. ZERO!
Therefore, my word for 2011 is FAITH. I need to have more of it and when the going gets tough I need to remember that one word, Faith, to overcome whatever the matter is. God is there for me and he will always be there for me. My plan was made 40 years ago for me. I can not change it, I just have to make the right choices to get to the Gates of Heaven.
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