my one word for 2022.

i wrote four blog posts last year and i’m pretty sure no one read them because i lost my email list and can’t figure out how to set one up again on this platform. thank goodness for instagram letting everyone use links now because it’ll be a heck of a lot easier to share blog posts with people now. i suppose i could just write posts without the expectation of people reading them, but let’s be honest, i write so people can read. if i didn’t want people to read my words, i’d just keep a fricking journal.

ANYWAY.

my point is that if you missed my word of the year last year, you can catch up here: my one word for 2021.

in that post, you can see my thoughts on resolutions (spoiler: i think they’re dumb) and my thought process on picking a word for the year. this year, my brain didn’t have the capacity to think of one myself so i used jen fulweiler’s word of the year generator instead. thank goodness it gave me a decent one, or i would have had to use my brainpower for this instead of parenting my three unique children in three unique ways.

i kept last year’s word written in my planner and i think it helped me focus all year long. i feel like i was able to cut through a lot of the “extra” in my life and get the clarity i was looking for. life helped a little with that as well. this year, i want to be less in charge. i want to fall into the background a little bit. i’ve been drawn to the idea of humility, it keeps popping up all over. from the litany of humility showing up in way more places than you would think it could, to feeling a pull for wanting less focus on me and wanting to figure out how i can be used to glorify God.

awe seems like a good place to start. i want to be impressed with tiny, seemingly unimportant things. i want to be in awe of the things i encounter every single day as well as the big, beautiful parts of the world. being in awe makes me think of feeling small, and i think feeling small is a great place to start to feel more humble, don’t you?

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