My Word ~

Hello to you my dear and faithful friends ~

I trust that you had a most beautiful Christmas and New Year's Eve

filled with all the joy that the Lord so graciously and abundantly showered you with.

I know that as we sat around our Christmas tree

there was joy and laughter through out our home

with the sweet fellowship of our precious family.

Grandchildren certainly have a way of putting a smile in your heart.

For many of us the New Year brings with it change;

changes that we desire to make in our own lives

after all, it's a New Year and new beginnings

seem to touch us all in different ways.

When I became a Blogger in this wonderful blogging community

I would visit many of you and see that you had a "word" for the year.

I had never heard of such a thing, but found it to be quite intriguing;

before I knew it, I was hearing about these "words" people had for the year

as I would daily go about my life.

This year I am going to come aboard with some of you

and claim my word for the New Year.

Actually, the Lord has placed a word upon my heart 

and it keeps coming into my mind and tugging at my heart strings.

In fact,  I have been putting my word into practice long before the New Year arrived. 

My "word" for this year is Uplifting.

Two of the definitions in the dictionary are:

"influences intended to uplift and inspire"

 I find myself talking with others that tend to be "Negative Nellie's" 

and at times it can be easy to go along with them
or just agree when that's not at all how I feel.

I have found that by speaking in an uplifting manner 

it causes the other person to do the same
and actually makes the conversation sweeter and more pleasant. 
I desperately want them to see the brighter side and find the joy of the Lord.
I want to encourage them along the way, and isn't that what God would have us to do?
♡

And then there are those who may be discouraged

and need more of a positive uplifting word of encouragement.
I want to be sensitive to the needs of others when I have a conversation with them
and speak in an uplifting, God honoring manner. 

I think you get the idea of where I'm going with this.

God's Word tells us in Colossians chapter 4 verse 6 to ~

"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt,

that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."

I desire to speak what is spiritual, wholesome, fitting, kind, sensitive,

purposeful, complimentary, gentle, truthful, loving and thoughtful.

Seasoned with salt  ~ just as salt not only flavors, it also prevents corruption.

I want my speech to be a blessing to others no matter what type

of conversation I may come into contact with.

"Hear: for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening

of my lips shall be right things.

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness 

is an abomination to my lips.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness,

there is nothing froward or perverse in them."

(Proverbs 8:6-8)

I want  my speech be all that God wants it to be.
I desire to be encouraging, inspiring and uplifting 
to all who may cross my path. 
♡

 Will you be having a word for the year that will draw you closer to the Lord?

Heavenly Father ~

Draw us ever so close to Your side

and help us to be the people You desire for us to be

as we walk, talk and live for Your glory.

Amen.

Be Glorious!

~ Debbie ~