SHINE

Every year Leanne over at From Chaos Comes Happiness chooses a word instead of a resolution to live her New Year by, and that makes more sense to me than resolutions.  I just about always break those.  For the last couple of years I haven't been so great with my words, either, but I have at least tried to hold them close to my heart as Talismans.  Last year I chose two: The Art of Allowing and Grace.  I readily admit that I fumbled with both often enough, but I did try to remember these two things when life did its thing.

As everyone is well aware, a new year is rolling around, and that means it is time to dig out a new word to embrace it.

Having thought long and hard about this, I have settled upon SHINE.  We have no control over outside forces, all we can do is shine with what we are given.  Given that outside forces always seem to be changing, challenging, and are completely outside our circumstance, just letting go of that is a good place to begin.  Accepting that the internal stuff is where you have the ability to make the difference and exert some change of your own.  And SHINE.

For those who are interested, I actually settled on this word when I was listening to this song.  We all have choices.  One of them is shining.





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