My New Word For 2022

Hello friends! What a weird feeling to be writing to you on my cell phone and not my laptop. I already miss the sound of the clicking keys when I move my fingers over them. But today I am away from my computer, in Tokyo, quarantining after a long visit with family in the States.

I just couldn't wait to write again because God has given me my new word for 2022. But before I get into that, I want to talk about my word for last year - surrender.

While I was in the US of A, a had a spiritual talk with a friend about my previous word. I was telling her how I felt like I didn't achieve surrender; that I felt that I came close to it but missed the mark. As I was explaining what I mean, the very thing I needed to hear came out of my own mouth...

"Surrender isn't something you achieve...

Surrender isn't a finish line...

Surrender is perpetual. It's something you KEEP doing." It was like God was speaking to me through me! What an experience!

With this new knowledge I realized - of course I feel like I missed the mark because I am a sinner... I physically cannot be in a constant state of surrender because I will faulter; I will stumble off the path of surrender and barrel head strong onto my own agenda.

But as long as I am trying to put down my wants, needs, and agenda inorder to pick up surrender, then I am still in the race. The race without a finish line. And if your running a race without a finish then by golly you'd better love the running. And I do. I love beening in that surrender state where the Spirit if the Lord is so heavy.

So what is my new word for this year? What is going to be built ontop of surrender? At 3 am in a hotel room in Tokyo I heard it. Rebirth. I have to admit I was taken aback. I already had rebirth when I was born again so why was I given this word? I'm embarrassed to say that at first I didn't want this word.

Then I looked up rebirth...

Rebirth: a period of new life, growth, or activity; a revival...

I scroll down a bit to Googles 'people also asked' section and read:

"Does rebirth mean change?"

You can refer to a change that leads to a new period of growth and improvement in something as its rebirth.

A new period of growth, or activity; a revival...

Then I seach synonyms for growth and found words such as maturing, ripening, flowering, and softening.

Then I just had to pull up the definition of revival - an improvement in the condition, strength, or fortunes of someone or something.

This is no small word, my friends. This year is going to be about growth, revival, maturing, rebirth... I'm going to break some spiritual glass ceilings.

Wow. Alot was covered in this blog and I wish I could add more (and I know I've got some explaining to do about blogtober and my huge writers burn out I had at the end of last year) but thats for another day. And this year I feel a sense of revial for my writing.

As always, find joy hidden amongst the mundane today and I will write to you again soon.