BRAVE
When my one word for 2014 first came to me, I blew it off. It couldn’t be my word, it was too close to fearless my word for 2013.
But it kept coming back to me. Brave.
And I realised that it was actually a profoundly logical step.
Fearless is working to stop the power of a negative feeling or action. Brave is taking a positive step forward, it's taking a risk. In my mind, one word is rooted in the negative and the other in the positive.
As someone who has lived bound in the negative for so much of my life, I long for, I crave, the positive. I am desperate for forward motion in my days. And I know that the likelihood is that I’m my own worst enemy in this regard.
So I need a reminder. Something to push me beyond myself. Something to spur me on in my seeking to be authentic. And the year of fearless was quite successful. Bloody hard, but as far as personal growth goes, successful. So what if I choose to take the positive step. What if my #ONEWORD365 was: Brave?
And I’m already planning a couple of risk taking adventures…
Applying for graduate study
Maybe taking a trip outside Australia
Hopefully finding new work
Possibly getting involved in a new church
(With a little trepidation) I look forward to what 2014 has in store for me and where God might be moving in my life.
I'll let you know!
2 comments:
I love this idea that after you work to manage and move past the fears that are holding you back, you then have to work to intentionally take the positive steps to be brave. Sounds like you have some exciting changes coming up that will give you plenty of opportunity to practice. Blessings on your brave 2014!
Thank you Trischa. Lovely to connect with you through the web.
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