My 2020 word-of-the year is grace.
Since 2012, I’ve had a guiding word for each year, a word that sort of “comes” to me, not something I choose logically or analytically. My words have included nourish, clarity, integration, replenish, sovereign, joy… and in 2017 instead of a single word, I was given a phrase-for-the-year of “embrace grace.” Then the next year, 2018, I was guided to keep on with that same phrase.
Two years in a row of embrace grace – a phrase that continues to be hugely important in my life.
So sometime in November, when I started sensing that grace was to be my guiding word for 2020, I hesitated at first. Shouldn’t I have a different word, something new I hadn’t had before as part of my word-of-the-year journeys?
But the prompting for this word stayed and strengthened, and I stopped resisting.
Grace it is.
Already, less than a week into this new year, I’m being challenged by this word. Hard, difficult stuff is already coming up for me and my husband, and I’ve been struggling to approach it all with grace.
At the same time, though, I’m finding strength because of grace. Grace is helping me through, moment by moment.
That’s how these words-of-the-year seem to go for me (and for many others I know). They present the positive aspects of the word, as well as the challenging bits. Almost as though the word is saying: You really want me in your life, you really want to KNOW me and experience me this year? Well, here you go, I’ll SHOW you life with me, the light and the dark of me, I’ll help you learn every side of me, so hold on for the ride!
So – grace.
Again. And still.
♥
Ginger Simpson White 