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...