2009 Word-of-the-Year Wrap Up

Last year I took up the Octamom challenge to chose a word-of-the-year as a focal point and personal challenge. My word, "rest", came right to mind and was continually just right for my year.

~Not once but twice I got away from the homes for long weekends, to just read and eat and relax and do something different.

~Could've had something to do with being too busy to think about it and experiencing a tragedy the same week, but I trusted and rested in God even as I turned 27 in 2009...still single.

~I took my first "furlough" after over 5 years living in Bolivia! It was probably very well my last because after two months I was bored to tears, but anyway, I planned to do it and I did it! {Now please no one mention another to me. At least not for 5 years!}

~In the first half of the year, two of our babies entered enternal rest with their Heavenly Father.

~I was very blessed by the insight in the book "Rest of God" by Mark Buchanan.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him. Psalm 37:7

Even though the challenges of 2009 are nothing I desire to recall, I want to continue growing in the lesson of taking appropriate REST.

The word for 2010 is coming up!