At Sunrise

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New Year (c) 2017 Linda M. Rhinehart Neas

This morning as I rose to meet this new day of the new year, I was still wondering about my one word for the coming months. Choosing a word on January 1st has been a spiritual practice I have done for several years now. Last year, I focused on the word "fearless."  Over the past twelve months, I looked at how this word played out. How could I be less fearful? What would being fearless look like? Throughout the year, I discovered that I could be fearless in many aspects of my life.  

So, what word of all the words in the dictionary would be my word for this year? 

I have actually considered about twenty different words.  Each had its merits and the potential to enable me to delve deeper into my spiritual life. However, none of them seemed to grab me the way fearless did last year.

Then, yesterday, as I was heading back to Massachusetts from Maine, I was drawn to a beach that I love. The sun had just risen above the horizon, the sea smoke danced below the golden orb. A magic moment captured by my camera thanks to my listening to that little voice within.
Suddenly, I knew the word for this year - intuition!

We all have intuition, but many of us do not use it or it was silenced many years ago. Thankfully, I was reared to trust my intuition, to listen when that little voice whispers.  So, this year, I will look at the importance of intuition; how to develop it; what happens when we don't listen, etc.

I encourage you to pick your own Word of the Year or, if that seems too overwhelming, then a Word of the Month. There are many ways to find your word:
  • open a book randomly
  • pull from a list of words
  • ask a friend for a word that describes a situation
However you find your word, let it sit with you and then, look at what it means in your life.

May the New Year bring us all a deeper understanding of this life and our role within it.  Blessings!



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