After listening to KLOVE 95.3 for a while and getting a push from a wonderful friend, I've decided to choose my "word" for 2011.
The "word" is a way of doing New Years resolutions without doing New Years resolutions. The idea behind it is that each year we all make resolutions with good intentions. Things we want to try, things we want to do, things we want to be better at. Most of the time, we fizzle out by February. They challenged us to give up resolutions and instead adopt a "word" that would describe what you want to come out of this year. Something you want to strive towards, something you want to define you for 2011. They suggested you think about it, pray about it, and carefully choose your "word". After an uplifting email from a great friend, not mentioning any names, Amy Oglesby, I got very excited to pick my "word." I took a bubble bath, and did some praying. Before I even started the word, relentless, was on my mind. I wasn't sure why, it seemed like a weird word for this. I decided to pray more about it and still..relentless was it. So I googled the definition and came up with this.....
Relentless:
1. unyieldingly severe, strict, harsh (Yikes! was my first thought)
2. determined, unmoving (okay this is better)
3.
showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace
4. steady and persisent
I had sent Amy an email before this saying how yet again, I've slacked on my daily reading and praying. It seems as I think about the past few years my word would be "floater" I"ve lived in a few different places, with different churches, different friends and because of that I"ve just floated along. So many times I"ve started a new bible study, a new prayer time and so many times, it's fizzled out. I believe its time for me to be steady and persisitent, unyielding, and strict.
Relentless in praise and worship, relentless in making time for God, relentless in my love for others. There is no room for fizzling out, and no room for stopping or giving up.
This is my word.
Relentless.