Wednesday, January 18, 2012

305 - Fun Things to Do!


It's a tradition at my church, Unity Chapel of Light, to choose a word to use as inspiration throughout the year. Since I had already chosen my theme, "Exploring Possibilities", I thought I was all set. But people kept talking about their words, what their words meant to them, and what they were going to do with their words, and I got hit with "one word fever"! I considered all kinds of words, and even made a spontaneous list of words that mean a lot to me, which I made into a word cloud that you can see in the last post. I typed "love" onto that list three times, which is why it came up larger than the other words. I drive a car with a LOVE decal on the back, and I believe that when all else fails, love always wins. We had a wonderful sermon recently entitled, "What Would Love Do Now?" which I just loved and have incorporated into my thought process. My personal symbol ever since I was in high school has been a heart. So finally, after encountering my love reminders at every turn, I declare 2012 to be the year of LOVE for me! Then, like a miracle, I found Fly Tribe Word Hop (click on that), where people have chosen their words for the year and are sharing in a blog hop from all over the country! And you can share your word in your blog, or in their comments section.

Since love will be my word, that opens up all kinds of possibilities to go right along with my "Exploring Possibilities" theme. This Saturday in Zentangle Club, my friend April is going to demonstrate Zentangle hearts -- that will be a great start for my theme year. And conveniently, Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so my theme already has a holiday for me to celebrate rambunctiously! Hooray! I wear a diamond heart necklace in memory of my beloved sister Barbara, so she will help me carry out my theme for this year, too. Now everywhere I turn, I see reasons to think of love, which is going to be a terrific way to conduct 2012.

I hope you will think of a word to power your 2012 and even consider sharing it here in the comments below. When you pick a word, you can do writing projects around it, creative manifestations of it, and think of all kinds of way to have it be present for you all year long. Or you can simply choose a word, and let it gently be there and see what happens. Love, Carol

7 comments:

  1. Hi Carol! My word is Affirm! I am going to Affirm what is true about me and Affirm the good and true that I see in others! Love your blog!
    http://becauseofgrace.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/tree-in-blue-affirm.jpg

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    1. Affirm is a wonderful word, and can be used in so many powerfully good ways! Hooray!

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  2. My word for the year is possibilities... I was to see the possibility to create, the possibility to show others compassion, the possibility to grow and learn, the possibility to show greater love to those I love and those that are harder to love.

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    1. Hi Kristin -- my theme for the year is "Exploring Possibilities" so I am with you all the way! And it leaves room for all kinds of wonder! Hooray!

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  3. big shiny bright beginnings all drenched
    in LOVE
    to you this year:)
    -Jennifer

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    1. Since I was born on Christmas Eve, I got named Carol. I was originally going to be named Jennifer, so that is a very favorite name of mine! I do feel like this is going to be an astonishing year for all of us!

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  4. Thanks for visiting my blog today. I'm so excited that my word for 2012 is "Sparkle". Have a happy 2012!!

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