One Word...New

I've been thinking for a couple of weeks about my "one word" for the year.  This is the word I feel that God has given me, a word to inspire my life for the next year.  A word that will affect the decisions I make, the way I parent, the kind of wife I am, the plans we make for the future.  I've learned from the past couple of years that this word is one I will return to throughout the year, in the good times and the bad.

My word this year is...new.

This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,  who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:  "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.  See, I am doing a NEW thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.  The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,  the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
~Isaiah 43:16-21

For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.  And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.  So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a NEW creation; the old has gone, the NEW has come!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:  that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
~2 Corinthians 5:14-19

God, I ask you to do NEW things in me and through me this year.   Help me to see the world through new eyes and with a new heart...Your eyes and heart.  Be glorified in all that I say and do, Father...

Music of 2013 and 2014

The song that most represented 2013...

Carried by Your constant grace,
Held within Your perfect peace.
Never once did we ever walk alone.

~Matt Redman "Never Once"

The song that has chosen me, going forward into 2014...


"Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)"
Lyrics from http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/hillsongunited/oceanswherefeetmayfail.html

You call me out upon the waters
The great unknown where feet may fail
And there I find You in the mystery
In oceans deep
My faith will stand

And I will call upon Your name
And keep my eyes above the waves
When oceans rise
My soul will rest in Your embrace
For I am Yours and You are mine

Your grace abounds in deepest waters
Your sovereign hand
Will be my guide
Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me
You've never failed and You won't start now

So I will call upon Your name
And keep my eyes above the waves
When oceans rise
My soul will rest in Your embrace
For I am Yours and You are mine

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders
Let me walk upon the waters
Wherever You would call me
Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander
And my faith will be made stronger
In the presence of my Savior
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I will call upon Your Name
Keep my eyes above the waves
My soul will rest in Your embrace
I am Yours and You are mine