Word

I am learning not to set a word for myself for the year, but rather I need to ask God what word He would have for me. Renovation is the word that keeps echoing through my mind this month. And not just because we are tearing up the floors in our home.

Wikipedia tells me Renovation is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure. Renovation can refer to making something new, or bringing something back to life.

Each year I try to be a better person, taking on a new word. But it has only added. It’s like buying new clothes and never donating the old. I just keep accumulating. And it’s only adding to the noise of who I am. Instead I’m tearing away the old. Ripping up what needs to go away. I’m learning how to put on my work boots, stand on the bare floors and work towards renovation.

I’m not going to pretend to know what that looks like for 2019 or even for tomorrow. But I am leaning into it. I’m learning to take life day by day. One step of obedience at a time. It can’t be  pushing through today with my own agenda. But rather, stopping and paying attention to His.