This year I have decided to participate in OneWord365, something that I am both excited and a little apprehensive about doing. I spent a lot of time thinking, reflecting, and praying about the one word that I wanted to spend 2012 focusing on and only one thing kept coming to mind over and over again. Initially I just thought it was me because it is something that I have continually struggled with and I’m always working on, so I was trying to think of something grander, more “spiritual” and then Tuesday happened.
I was back at work after having over a week off for the holidays and was just having a hard time getting back into the swing of things all while being introduced to OneWord365 and trying to come up with something. Then, at the end of the day, I found out that I was being talked about in a negative way by people I didn’t report to and a group of people who I don’t even work with had been trying to get me in trouble at work. I was really frustrated and angry about the situation, I honestly had no idea what I had done to either party to cause them to think of me that way and I let it eat at me all night. The next morning I was thinking about OneWord365 again and that’s when it hit me: am I going to let what others say and think about me define my identity or am I going to find my identity in the One who created me?
So this year I am going to search the Word, seek God’s face and anchor my identity as a man, a husband, a father, a friend and a believer in the Truth.
I’m excited about where this journey will take me and, yes, I’m apprehensive about what I may learn and changes I may have to make. Nonetheless, I’m inviting you to travel this path with me.
