Last Christmas season, while my family was still on our holiday trek, a thread showed up on my favorite homeschool message board concerning "your word for the year."  Apparently, many of my cybersisters chose one word that described how they wanted to focus their thoughts and actions and schooling for the year.  It really just kind of blew past me.  But this year I decided to play along.  Decisive thing that I am, I wasn't able to limit myself to just one.  Here's what I wrote on the boards:

First, PEACE. There's nothing like spending 2000 miles in a Suburban with four children who act like, well, children to make one think about peace. I desire this year to really focus on trying to make these people family instead of enemies. To be fair, there's only one sibling relationship that is chronically bad, and that's the one that I'll be hoping to guide, but everyone has his and her moments. I want us to dwell together in unity.

Also, I want to find out what I can do to promote peace. I don't really have any idea what I mean by that quite yet. Locally? Globally? I just know that the more I think about war, the more I hate it, and I think that the Lord must have put it on my heart for some reason. I want to know how I could be a peace warrior. Again, I don't know even what I mean, but I want to be in a world where we study war no more.

Second, WORSHIP. I want to be in a place where I am in an awareness of God so that I see so clearly that I am a great sinner and He is a great Savior. I want to fall on my knees and cry holy and have a sense of what that means and what He is.

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