My Word(s) for 2013

I can not believe here is January 2013. No not because I believed the Mayan Calendar but it seems like just yesterday was January 2012 and we were just starting our new adventure in our great big new state. Oh my all the journeys 2012 took us on. The continuation of 2011 and what I feel is still coming for 2013. How fast the days go and the moments that fleet away with them. Soaking up the last of 2012 was spent working on a couple of little projects around the house yesterday and a family campout watching a movie marathon of one of our favorite movies... Mystery Woman. My oldest made it to midnight but was very happy to see it arrive so she could say, "I proved you wrong. I did it!" and my husband and I made it. The boys crashed. The youngest fell asleep on my chest for hours. I loved every moment of it. He'll be 4 in 2013 and the baby of the family and I watched him sleep last night in wonder of the little man he is going into.

So blessed. 

I sat watching everyone around in awe last night of where we have come in the last year. Never had I imagined it possible to be where we are at in a years time. That is the beauty of God calling the impossible possible.



Sunday we had a guest speaker at church and he talked about God writing a bigger story for our lives in 2013 if only we do what is so hard for all of us to do.

Surrender. 

Fully. 

Ugh what!? No control and full letting go of everything!? So against my nature.

As I sat there God was doing a number on my heartstrings. This one word that holds so much in it's little letters is exactly what he is calling me to do this year. Full, complete, unquestioning surrender. To completely let go of every.single.area. of my life. Seemed fitting after the post I had just published and he sat there reminding me that what I wrote was exactly what he wants of me. That I am not to make a single move, purchase, calculation, or plan without his say so. That will not be easy for me at all but I know the peace that comes if I would just do that. Our guest speaker also shared a verse to go with it. As he read it God whispered... "This is your verse. This is what I want from you."




So, I am claiming this verse this year. It will be written on my bathroom mirror and by the computer to remind me daily that I am not to do anything until the Father tells me to.

With surrender came another word though. I prayed if I were to only have one word for 2013 but God kept throwing another one at me and I think they go hand in hand yet separate.

Present. 

He asked me to be 100% present this year. 

Full attention in Him. 

Full attention in my family. 

Full attention. To have my mind 100% present in what is taking place in the moment I am living in. Not lost in thought of all that I can not control and should not be fearing about. 

To walk away from the computer and to leave the cell phone in the other room. 

To be 100% present. 

So, I am claiming this as well. To be 100% present to God, family, and the moments that God places me in. To not miss a moment or make an excuse to not sit and be and enjoy. To listen more intently and to just be more.

These two words and this verse above I pray to be my staple this year. To be what I hold on to and live by for not only this year but years to come. Words I pray to become second nature for me.