You know how people pick or hear a word for the new year and that’s their focus for improvement? Words like: organize, faith or health?
Well, I didn’t want to pick a word for 2022.
2021 was hard enough to get through and the last thing I wanted to do was put more pressure on myself. I just wanted to rest and celebrate the fact that I survived the old year.
And, when you look at the date of this posting, you can see that I lasted without a guiding word for quite a while. In fact, I was pretty sure that God agreed with me. “Give this girl a break, she needs peace, not refining”.
And, then it happened. A word popped into my head and wouldn’t go away.
ACTION.
Yuck. Action? Really? That’s the last word I would have chosen for myself.
I am the queen of IN-action. I can put off to-do items like a pro. I can procrastinate until the end of time. Action is not my favorite word. It’s not even in my top 1000.
Perhaps it is because it took me so many years to find peace. I didn’t have peace in my childhood or young adult life. Then, I got married and began having and raising kids. Peace was once again in a faraway place (away from me). And, then severe illness struck me and peace was something only other people had.
It has only been in the last few years that blessed peace has entered my life. And, it feels so good that I crave it like it is a drug. I could sit in my house all day, just soaking peace up.
So, ACTION, God? Come on, you know how hard I had to work to find peace.
It’s all fun and games until my Father decides to discipline and refine me. The fact that He is always right doesn’t make it any easier to take. As usual, His timing is perfect, I have been wallowing for too long. My weight has gone way up and my health is suffering because of it. I am tired all the time and my gift for procrastination has grown to epic proportions.
ACTION is the perfect word for 2022. I just don’t want it.
However, God is not to be ignored and I cannot get the word out of my brain (no matter how hard I try).
So, I will do my best to add some action into my life. Perhaps it will be in the form of walks or maybe I will tackle my chore list. I should probably do housework more often than every Christmas as well. Whatever form it takes, I will attempt to balance my newfound peace with a little action and see where it takes me.
After all, God knows me and like any good father, he knows what’s best for me even when I don’t want to admit it.
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