Comments on: How to Choose a Word for the Year https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/ Nurturing a vibrant healthy spirituality Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6696 Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:27:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6696 In reply to Dolly @ Soulstops.com.

I will have to check out those psalms. Hopefully next week will take some longer Bible time to find just the right verse. I do remember last year, my verse didn’t really emerge clear until March so will wait if necessary. So happy to journey into joy with you! Merry Christmas

]]> By: Dolly @ Soulstops.com https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6694 Thu, 24 Dec 2015 02:37:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6694 In reply to Jean Wise.

I love your dancing image…no image yet…maybe Psalm 126: 2-3 and 5-6.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6693 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:58:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6693 In reply to Hugmomma.

You have made my day with your sharing and passionate and love of our Father. Wow, God is soooooo good! And he will continue to me present in both of our lives. Equipped is a powerful word too isn’t it? Just imagine how God will equip, surprise and transform us with our words of joy and redeemed in 2016, I am excited with you and praising God this morning. Thanks so much for sharing!!!!

]]> By: Hugmomma https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6692 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 14:47:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6692 Jean, I was so excited to share this story with you that I almost couldn’t wait to finish this year’s “Word for the new year” blog before telling you. Last year was my first “pray about a word” experience. My word was “Courage”. I must tell you, each time I needed courage, I was prompted with the memory that this was my year to be courageous and pushed through, when I felt weak, I remembered God asked me to be courageous this year. Courage from God truly changed my life. He equipped me for each task with the nudging that this was my season to stand and that He was with me. Thanks for being a part of that, Jean. When your blog announcement arrived in my inbox, I asked the Lord what my new word would be. With faithful certainty, He gave me my word, and I’m excited to share that it is “redeemed”. We will see what adventure God has planned as we discover all the ways He brings redemption to my life. He is a good and generous Father.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6691 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:02:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6691 In reply to Martha Orlando.

A spiritual director told me once to wait till something bubbled up and that word has helped me listen, wait and hold things lightly ever since I heard it. Love the word gratitude – a very powerful word!! Merry Christmas to you too dear friend

]]> By: Jean Wise https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6690 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:01:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6690 In reply to Dolly @ Soulstops.com.

I love it we are joy buddies! That is amazing. Let’s continue to share with one another what Joy brings us in 2016. God has given me the image of Dancing with God. – a very freeing moving image. Do you have a Bible verse to accompany joy yet? I know there are lots of them but one hasn’t emerged as THE one for me yet. Merry Joyous Christmas to you too, Dolly

]]> By: Martha Orlando https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6689 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:20:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6689 I love the image of the word for the year bubbling up repeatedly, and offering it back to God for assurance that it is really He doing the choosing. My word for 2016 is Gratitude.
Have a blessed Christmas, Jean!

]]> By: Dolly @ Soulstops.com https://healthyspirituality.org/how-to-choose-a-word-for-the-year/#comment-6688 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:11:00 +0000 http://healthyspirituality.org/?p=4065#comment-6688 Jean,

Thanks for sharing your process.

Hey, I’ve been sensing God leading me to choose JOY, thus the new series over at my blog…we can be joy buddies 🙂 Merry Christmas early, my friend …may you and yours be blessed with much JOY!

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