word of the year

2018 Word of the Year {Thoughts From Me}

January 7, 2018 by Dana

For 2017, our Word of the Year was Focus. You can read that post here: https://www.luvnlambertlife.com/2016/12/word-of-year-2017.html

Last year, I really wanted to focus on us as a family and that’s truly what we did with God guiding us. We struggled but in the end we were blessed and God brought us closer than ever, which I’m truly grateful for. It wasn’t the easiest of years but it’s probably the most memorable year we will ever have.

This year our 2018 Word of the Year is:

Lantern

Last year lead us to many first as a family. It is my hope that our experiences from then will lead us like a lantern in word and spirit to help others this year.

Psalm 119:105 – Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet,
And a light unto my paths.

I want His guidance and His word to continue to light our path as it has throughout our lives. I pray this year brings triumph and continued happiness for us. I pray our voices light the way for others who God brings into our journey with us. And I pray that my children will keep following God’s lighted path for them as He leads them to do great things with their lives in glorifying him.

Word of the Year: 2017 {Thoughts From Me}

January 5, 2017 by Dana

FOCUS

It’s been a while since I chose a word of the year for us. Last year we weren’t really online due to not having internet so I wasn’t really able to chose one. This year we do have internet so I’ll be picking our word of the year.

As I’ve thought and prayed over our Word of the Year, I was really torn between two words: Balance and Focus. Balance was my first choice but the more I prayed, the more Focus presented itself. I began to understand that our word of the year should be Focus.

Dictionary.com defines Focus as a noun meaning a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity. Focus is also described as the clear and sharply defined condition of an image. It can also be a verb meaning to concentrate: to focus one’s thoughts and to direct one’s attention or efforts. Synonyms for Focus are: heart, center, core, nucleus.

Our focus this year will be upon each other as a family. As a Mother, I wish to focus more on my children, enjoying the years we have left before they are grown. I wish to focus on each of their relationships with me and Donald, with each other, allowing them to strengthen these relationships in order to better our family.

I plan to focus on finding a way to sustain our family financially as well. I’m not sure where we are being led yet, but I know that God has a plan and my focus will be on allowing God to put us on the path he wishes for us to be.

As a family, we will also focus on strengthening our relationship with God as well. We will continue to pray together, and for others. We will learn more about God’s plan for our family through prayer, and through building our relationship with Him and with one another as well.

Focus is our main goal for this year and Focus we will do!

We are linked up with the Word of the Year 2017 from the Homeschool Review Crew, a division of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine!

http://schoolhousereviewcrew.com/word-for-the-year-2017-link-up/

2014: Word of the Year {Word of the Year}

January 2, 2014 by Dana

I admit, I could not remember my word of the year for 2013 so I had to go back and look it up. It was DRIVEN. At the time, I could not have even begun to imagine the effects of that word on our life through the past year.

DRIVEN: It’s had so many meanings this year. We have driven from home to Charleston to home over and over again. We have traveled these miles carrying each of my four children to different doctors. Sometimes coming home with great results, sometimes being placed on the back burner because of our life with Epilepsy and most of these trips were because of our Epilepsy.

DRIVEN: The past year has been one of the hardest for our family. We had to be driven to overcome all the challenges and obstacles that have been in front of us for the year. It was hard to keep it all together but we have managed and we are praying in this next year, we won’t need to be so driven to overcome all the things as we have been for the past year.

DRIVEN: It’s what my baby has been all year. His immense strength amazes me. He’s fought to hard all year as his sweet body was wracked with uncontrollable seizures that he didn’t even realize were going on. It’s what my sweet daughter has also been, trying to maintain control after her seizure in June which still effects her thoughts daily. Sometimes it’s the aftermath that’s worse than the actual seizure.

Yes, this year has been a rough one and our word for last year definitely fit us well!! Our word for the next year is OVERCOME. We will overcome the challenges of the last year. We will overcome the challenges ahead of us this year. We will manage our lives better, attempt to have better control of ourselves, our homes and the little things that life throws at you when you least expect it. That will be my goal and dream for this next year.

Through Christ we can OVERCOME it all!

Faithful and Driven {Word of the Year}

January 3, 2013 by Dana

2012: Faithful

Since I didn’t choose a word for the beginning of 2012, I decided I would chose one that sums my year up. Faithful. This year has been based upon faith in so many ways.

Faith in religion, in God. Faith in birth. Faith in finances. Faith in home, friends, family. A never-ending stretch of faith.

I am filled with Faith. Somedays, I don’t think I can find it but there is always that simple, small mustard seed, which in the end of it all is all that we need. Just a simple mustard seed of faith in the Lord.

And I can promise you, I do have that.

This year, in 2013, my word of the year will be Driven.

This year, I will be driven to complete the tasks I have put off. Driven to make choices in life and religion, faith and love. Driven to do better for my family, better for myself.

I will find myself moving forward. I will be building upon dreams and tasks that I have wished to have completed for a long time. I will head into this year on a mission to do the best I possibly can. Driven to do what I need to as I’m lead to progress.

I’m hoping I can live up to this word throughout the year, as I grow in many things and accomplish many of the wishes I have. What is your word for 2012 and 2013? Please share in the comments or send me a link if you’ve shared in a post. I’d love to read them.