Mondays Offering... A New Season, My Word, and some sister Inspiration

A new season has come

A re-newed light upon my path

Rejuvenation

Exhilaration

are some of the words

 that come to mind.

There has been a long winter

residing in my soul.

 For over a year now, this season has

held me captive

been my companion

has brought me to my knees

and has been a friend to my soul

Winter offered a place of stillness

time to reflect

a place to hibernate

in the wisdom of The North 

A long season it has been

treacherous and beautiful

and like the thaw in Narnia

I feel the coldness lifting

I can see my path is shifting

the frozen lakes are melting

and the green is once again

returning

 There has been

much beauty where I have been

and I have been grateful for the time

that has been given

for Winter offers Silence like no other

and cooling to the hot fires

of transformation

I do not know

what season it is I walk into

but I am ready

and I am willing

to cross over to something new...

These images where given to me

last Friday during a walk

with my youngest and his friend.

I was amazed at how the landscape

reflected what I felt

within.

Standing in the coldness of the frozen earth

I felt cool and clean

and the beauty was

undeniable.

But the truth is 

one can only be in that space for so long;

Especially when the sun begins to beckon you

to come a bask in it's warmth.

Every season to everything...

especially with Spirit

And so

just as I walked out into the sun on Friday

so my Soul is moving into a new season within

and I am ready.

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My Word...

My word for 2013

is 

HUMILITY

I could feel it being pressed upon me 

as 2012 came to a close.

I sat with it

I waited

and it remained.

The past year has been amazing

so many blessings

so many gifts.

I am humbled as the Love that has been given

I am humbled by a God...

a Spirit of such goodness and grace.

That even in the darkest times

the greatest of loss

I live in a knowing

that there is more than I see

and that all things are for a purpose

and I am Loved and Cherished

for who I am,

not what I do.

My heart has grown

so much bigger than I ever thought was possible.

My dreams more alive 

than I ever thought they could be.

And Love

Love in such great abundance

it has taken my breathe away.

And so it is

I will walk 2013 out in Humility

Grateful for this life I have been given.

*

Just one more thing

I was so inspired by this Chickadee
and her story of declaring a word 
with her husband
I decided to follow her lead.
It took a few days to find the one
and after we got past the silliness of it all;
~because there is always silliness with the husband 
when I invite him into
my "slightly ridiculous" world 
(which, of course, he secretly loves)~
We decided on
Progression
This progression will walk with us in 
our marriage
our home life
our dreams
our future
our today
our love

Progression 

It's a good word...no?
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What's in your "tool-belt" 
as you walk into 2013
my lovelies?

Love and Light