Word of the Year

I have a really amazing friend (Jessie) who recently posted on her Instagram about choosing a word of the year to focus on. I’ve never heard of this before but it’s been on my mind ever since I read her post… her word is “surrender” and I have no doubt she will focus her attention on her journey of surrendering to God.

So after much deliberation, I’ve settled on my own “word of the year”:
Patience.

I went through quite a few… faith, hope, trust, and courage. But I decided patience would be most fitting for me this year.

I’ve already had to be patient in a less-than-ideal living situation until I could find a way to change it and get my own place (an apartment in town).

I’m patiently waiting for my house to sell so I can buy a place of my own and bring all my critters back home. I have to be patient while I miss them terribly. Sometimes I miss them so much I literally ache with sadness.

In my “prior life”, I used to spend countless hours with my animals. Not just riding my horses but loving them. Not just feeding my goats and my donkey, but loving them. It’s been a difficult adjustment to love them from afar.

So… patience. Something I’ve always struggled with in my day-to-day life and now have to learn to encompass in an especially trying time in my life.

I can do this.

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”