What's the word? 2014

I really do gravitate towards this idea of a "word" for the New Year.  Last year my ego ruled my word selection and by the end of the year, I couldn't have told you what it was for the life of me!  I really wanted a cool word...you know?  So the word that I supposedly discerned wasn't really for me. 

This year I fiddled with the idea of the word.  I read some wonderful work by Christine Valters Paintner with the Abbey of the Arts.  She is the one who originally introduced to this idea of a word.  Nothing really came and I had kind of just given up.  Then tonight, as I sat here on my sofa with a fire, left over black-eyed peas and fresh cornbread, I realized I was making it too complicated.  I needed to go back to the basics because I have changed and what I thought I believed wasn't the same anymore...perhaps the real truth I never really took the time to understand or learn some things. 

Earlier this year I had read something about faith, hope and trust.  I was really a bit confused and asked almost everyone what they thought the difference was in faith and trust .... what did it mean to them.  I remember getting some really wonderful answers, but these answers were theirs, not mine.  So my word for this year is "Faith".  I am not going to analyze it or tear it apart.  I am going to feel faith, live faith, speak faith and be faith.  There's a part of me that wants to deeply understand so I can't analyze it or me or life any more.  My brain is tired.  My body is tired.  Faith.  And yes, for the record, I googled "what is the real meaning of faith".  I received over 100,000 entries.  I read one...maybe two...skimmed through a whole bunch.  That was their definition of faith.  I listened to some great songs about faith that someone blogged about. 

Until we meet here again in cyber world, I will leave with Hebrew 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.