Well, it doesn’t always pay to come up with One Word too soon anyway. I’ve been known to change mine at the last day of the year. 🙂 God reveals in his time. Merry Christmas, Kelly!

Yes, I have been keeping up with Michelle’s 5-minute practice and I love it! I tried something similar to that a few years back with L.L. Barkat’s book “God in the Yard.” It was much harder than I thought it would be! 🙂 I agree it would be a great practice to incorporate into 2016….

Have your read how Michele DeRusha is practicing stillness for five minutes each day. she has blogged about it lately. I am thinking that would be a great practice to incorporate for 2016. Ironically stillness was my 2015 word.

I’ve been working on #2 this whole year myself, Jean. It is hard to let go of that constant chatter in my brain. I continue my practice of Centering Prayer, but I’m not seeing much outer progress. Hopefully the inner progress is there and I’m just not seeing it. ha. So yes, I’m with on the journey of a lifetime!

Well, sometimes we don’t even realize our lessons that we’ve been learning until much after the fact. So I’m sure your “shine” year will reveal itself to you! 🙂 What a beautiful one word choice. I haven’t decided yet for 2016 either. I try to hold my thoughts loosely until it get closer because I have changed it at the last moment. ha.

Thanks, Carol. It is amazing how God will reveal things to us when we stay more attentive and open to his presence in the present. I hope I can continue on with that. Thanks for stopping by!

That’s awesome that you took steps to actually live and enjoy THIS year. It’s easy for us planner-types to stay too much in the future, but it’s now that we’re meant to enjoy and where we are to be present (as well as tomorrow). Granted, good planning for later helps us enjoy it more when we get to it. 🙂 Gotta keep a proper balance, right? Thanks for sharing, Michael.

Likewise, Mary. 🙂 Be blessed.