Looking Back

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It is that time of year again, time for reflecting.  A time where I usually count up my successes and failures, highlights and heartbreaks, struggles and victories. Keep in mind, I am not a resolution maker in any way.. I despise resolutions. As a perfectionist, I can not put myself through any more self inflicted torture. Instead, I make vision boards. Which is the creative cousin in  some ways to a list of  New Year's resolutions, but for me it less demanding and more freeing.

 It all begins with a word of the year. One year, my less creative year the word was Resolve, pretty lame... another it was More, last year... I never had a word of the year I just kept having the impression of making space for what would come. As I look back now, I can see it was a year of letting go, and breaking through. It was a year of uncertainty and sadness. I remember at one point just thinking.... if only I could touch the bottom and push my self back up for air in the sea I was drowning in. No wonder I didn't have a word!! What would that have been for 2019? 

Looking back ….I think it would have been two words 

KEEP BREATHING

And... I did. Success

This year, my word came unexpectedly and early.  It will require faith to believe it to be true, and after last year, that will take some doing. This morning, my word was confirmed again through my devotional time. 

So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen , but what is unseen, since what is see in temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 

                                                                      2 Corinthians 4:18

So, what is my word for 2020? 

UNSTUCK

There you have it. This word has so much hope built into it and I want to believe it. I want it in almost every area of my life and especially in my art. 

So, I'm off to create that vision board. Will you be making a list of resolutions or a vision board? Stay tuned ... I will share mine soon. 

Rest easy, my friends

Sherri