My Word For The Year........(HINT: It's FUN!)

January 10, 2015

 So over the past few years, every January 1 there has been a lot of chatter in certain women's groups about "Your Word For The Year"........and as I would roll my eyes and say out loud to no one, "Seriously, what does that mean anyway?"......and then promptly answer myself with, "Oh, its just a bunch of women making up some nice-sounding spiritual words to define themselves for the year.....or the month.....or the week until they soon forget about having a word." 

Yep, that's what I thought......UNTIL......

 I decided to have a "Word" this year.  Yep......I'm going to be one of "those women" who choose a word for 2015.  And it's not going to be the standard good Christian words that most of these women are picking like HOPE, FAITH, GIVE, THANKFUL, etc.  I'm actually "stealing" my word from Jenni Allen and my word is

"FUN". 

See, I used to be a lot of fun.....or at least, I thought I was.  I carried FUN in my pocket pretty much every where I went.....I threw caution to the wind and did bold and FUN things regularly.  I didn't take life too seriously and I laughed a spunky from-the-gut Ant Ellie laugh....most every day.  But somewhere along the journey of finding God and finding what I believed and finding my place with Him, I lost my fun.  Completely misplaced my friend, FUN.

Ant Ellie

Now I'm not blaming God for misplacing my FUN....nope....not His fault.  I feel quite sure He knows how to have fun and play practical jokes and do crazy cool things like turning water into wine and eating grain on the Sabbath with a little crooked smile on His face while everyone stood there in shock.  I think, for Him, that WAS fun.  


So over the past few years, I've been desperately missing this friend of mine called "FUN".  I've been baffled over why when I discovered a God I never knew before in my life, did FUN take a hike?  What I discovered is that I have been living a lot of my life FOR God instead of WITH God.  Let that soak in for a minute....or two....or ten.  

I want 2015 to be the year that God and I, TOGETHER, have fun roller skating down Eagle Cove or singing Proud Mary at the Pittsburg Pizza Inn Karaoke Night, laughing that bigger-than-life Ant Ellie laugh until we hiccup....never caring who hears us or the bruises we get, together, when we fall off our skates.  



2015 is going to be the year I find my FUN again.

So on this nasty, gray, wintry day in January,  I think I'm going to go bundle up Charlie.....hop on his lap and pop some wheelie's in his wheelchair down Eagle Cove.....blowing cold-air-smoke in the air with our laughs.....knowing all along.......Jesus is roller skating right behind us.