The calendar has once again turned another page and we are now into a new year ..... 2017. I reflected yesterday on how time passes so quickly and it feels not so long ago that we were on the cusp of the new millenium when 1999 turned to 2000. And here we are seventeen years later already! Time does pass so quickly. I'm not one to necessarily make resolutions, but this year something came to me that I wanted to share with others. I was compelled to thimk of a word. If you know me well you know I love to read and words are a big part of my life. So I thought to myself if there was one word that I wanted to have close to me, carry with me and follow me throughout the year, what would that word be? Of course to be able to only pick one word a person might have the tendency to want to overthink this. You might think ..... 'gosh, I better pick a great word because it's going to stick with me all year!'. But it's interesting how if you just 'allow', a word will come to you. I didn't really have to think to much about it as there was a word for me that came quite easily. I made no effort to choose it. It simply kept popping up in my mind and I heard myself speaking it. I feel that it was chosen for me in this way. It was being sent to me. Whatever word aligns with you will be the one that you are meant to carry with you this year. Just like the Reiki energy, this word kmows what you need and is best for you. My word is JOY. It's interesting that last year at some point I changed my username on social media to 'magg_joy'. My first name being Maggie and my less known middle name being Joyce. Hence the combination. So it seems that the word 'joy' was already trying to find a place in my life months ago. This word joy may seem like an easy one to carry through the year but one needs to look deeper at how it might fit into your life. If you sit to reflect you will come to an understanding of the meaning of the word and as to how it will have purpose in your life. I looked up my word JOY in Webster's Dictionary to find out exactly the meaning of my word. It enlightened me even more to know explicitly its meaning and source. So now I have my word with me and it's fascinating how it will wend it's way into my life. This morning I was compelled to draw a card from a deck that I haven't had out in a very long time. The cards are by Sark and the deck is the Juicy Living Cards. I shuffled, I graced them with Reiki energy and I cut them by intuition. The card that was facing me said ...... Let's move our bodies in new and joy - full ways. There's that word 'joy'! This was so wonderful to see and a huge reminder of this word that is mine to keep for the year and weave into my life.
If you feel a word speaking to you over and over, take a minute and listen. It might be your word.
Blessings to you in this new year of 2017!