Want to Join a Group for Your One Word of the Year?
—Sign Up Anytime During the Year!
[UPDATED FOR 2024]
If you choose One Word for the year, but then forget about it after a few months, we have a solution for you.
If you need help choosing your word, read this: 3 Steps to Finding the Right Word.
And this: 7 Tips for Choosing Your One Word of the Year.
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READ OUR PREVIOUS POSTS AND SEE OUR LINKUPS HERE.
What You’ll Get
This is what we’ll provide you year-round when you join our One Word group.
1. COMMUNITY
This is the most essential ingredient. Belonging to a community helps us stay accountable with each other with our words. And as a bonus: we also grow from each others’ words.
2. EMAIL
On the 17th of each month in 2024 you’ll receive an email to remind you of your word, along with a few suggestions, questions, or activities to engage with your word.
3. ENCOURAGEMENT
If you blog or are on social media, we’ll encourage you to write a blog post or make a social media status answering the questions or otherwise updating us about how it’s going with your word. But everything is optional, of course.
4. LINKUP
On the 24th of each month (for 2024), I’ll share a linkup post here at the blog. You can add all your own links from your blog or social media, and read others’ posts.
5. GIVEAWAYS
Occasionally we have giveaways for books or special gifts. We’ll keep you posted on when and how to enter.
6. RESOURCES
We share our favorite resources with each other. See the growing list here.
Join Our Facebook Group and Our New Instagram Group
You’re also invited to join our private One Word Facebook group. It’s optional, but encouraged if you’re on Facebook (even if you don’t use Facebook for anything else).
You’ll find extra encouragement and camaraderie in the interactions among our Facebook participants.
You can also follow our OneWordCommunity Instagram account.
Don’t Know Your Word Yet?
Maybe you’ve already chosen your word. (Or it’s chosen you!) Or maybe not.
Together we can help each other choose and get more out of our One Words.
Our One Word community helps us grow more insightful with our words, with each other, and with ourselves throughout the year. I personally learn not only from my word, but also from others’ words.
I’m excited to do it again.
SIGN UP ANYTIME DURING THE YEAR.
Watch for amazing things in 2024 with your new One Word!
Did you choose One Word for 2023? Do you know your 2024 word? Share in the comments.
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Still waiting for my 2022 word to land. But also, still really learning from PERSEVERE, so I am content in waiting.
PERSEVERE is the perfect word to accompany you as you await your next word. 🙂
No word yet . . .
I suppose it will reveal itself when I least expect it, Lisa. Here’s to 2022!
It’s interesting how God does that! It’ll be fun to see how God reveals your word to you, Martha.
My one word for the past two years was ‘too busy to think about it’ wait, that’s a phrase. I’m feeling the pull and praying about a word for 2022, though.
Some years are like that, right? 🙂 If 2022 is the year for a word for you, I’ll look forward to hearing what you get, Anita.
I’m enjoying the last couple of weeks with 2021’s One Word and looking forward to 2022’s One Word. I just received my word and I’m excited for the upcoming journey. Thank you for hosting this group, Lisa!
I think it’s fun that we will post on the 22nd in 2022. I didn’t realize the reason for posting on the 21st in 2021.
Oh yay that you have your word now! Last year at this time I was going back and forth between several words, but this year God gave me my 2022 without a fight from me. 🙂
I love the idea of being in community to stay focused on our one word. My word for 2021 was transformation, but I don’t yet have my word for 2022, I have “accountability” on the short list so the idea of small groups excites me.
Glad to hear it, Charlotte. Transformation must have been a powerful word for this past year. And Accountability sounds like a great word especially in light of our small groups!
No word yet. I am looking for a word around the theme: being enough in Christ, or loved by Him. As the antithesis of slavish fear. It has to do with freedom. And love. I don’t know a good word it. In the word freedom I don’t feel the aspect of love or being loved. So … no word yet.
I will join the group again 😉
Hmm…I can’t think of one word either that encapsulates both those themes, but I love the concept you’re aiming for, Aritha. Hope you’ll find just the right word soon. And so glad you’re going to stay with the group again!
Thank you Lisa: I have found my word. Yedidyah, meaning “beloved of Jah”. Or: beloved (in Dutch geliefd)
Beautiful, Aritha! I’ve learned a new word today (but don’t ask me to pronounce it, ha).
I’m intrigued Lisa! Will you have the larger group still or just the smaller quad groups? ?
Blessings,
Jennifer
Both! We’ll still have the large group for everyone, and the smaller groups for those who want more accountability and companionship along the way. I want to be in one myself.
Have just focused on the 2022 One Word: diligence. I have much to learn through it, I am quite sure.
My 2021 word of ‘decrease’ has really given me much inward change, to say the least. I have been pondering it these past few weeks to write the December and maybe final post. I say “final” but God is not done with me on this powerful and humbling word. I have truly loved this 2021 journey.
Thank you, Lisa, for all you do to roll the ball for these annual journeys. I just read about the 4-people groups and think that is a fine way for us to journey in closer proximity to one another adding accountability. I so appreciate you, sweet friend. And I love you, my sister.
Your word ‘decrease’ kept popping up with me, too, Linda! And every time I’d think of you. I’ve loved that added bonus of better remembering other people’s words as well as my own this year. I’m SO thankful you’ve been a part of this journey. It’s such a blessing to hear your sweet, gentle voice echoing the Lord’s voice throughout the year.
I love your new word! Diligence will be a wonderfully active word to use throughout the year. Love you much!
My word for 2022 is ‘fun’ and my theme is ‘playful’! I want to allow myself more time to do the things I enjoy and not feel that whenever I am at home I need to be working. I really love the idea of your group, Lisa, and I appreciate you sharing it with the Hearth and Soul Link Party. Sharing in the Hearth and Soul Facebook Group and I’m featuring this post at the party which goes live on Sunday (9th January) this week. Hope to ‘see’ you there! Take care and I hope you have a lovely weekend.
What a great word and theme, April! (Hmmm…these would make great backup words for me!) Thanks for featuring my post this weekend. I’ll be there. I appreciate your link party and the links you share. It is indeed a fun place!
Hi Lisa,
I love that you’ve created a group and recommended it to a friend. What a blessing!
My word for the year is “glory” and the verse is Romans 4:20, “He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God…”
“Glory” is a great choice for your One Word, Tammy. I remember years ago I heard a sermon series on the radio on giving glory to God, and it totally revolutionized how I thought about it (granted, I hadn’t really thought much about it prior to that!). It was back in the days before podcasts and online stuff, so I recorded it off the radio onto a cassette tape. lol. But it was worth it.
Thanks for sharing about our One Word group to your friend!
My word for 2022 was purpose. Being housebound with COVID (20200, a major surgery (2020), and a lumpectomy (2021) I began to doubt if I was realizing my purpose for the LORD.
My word for 2023 is forgiven. I was drawn to the passage where Paul tells us to forgive others as we have been forgiven.