My One Word

Well, I really wasn’t going to write about my one word for the year, but since I opened up so much in my other post, apparently I’m ready to share my feelings more. Aren’t you all so lucky?
So here is the word that is going to dictate my thoughts, actions and works: Humility.
Yikes! It’s a powerful word, I know, it kind of knocks me to my knees, figuratively and literally. But the word humility didn’t always have this effect on me, no this word wasn’t always very intimidating or very special in my life. It’s only been lately that I’ve needed this word and it’s meaning more than I need air to breathe. I’ve come to find out that I can’t grow, I can’t progress, I can’t change anything in my life until I incorporate this word into it. And I’ve had to have a dose of this humility to even come to that realization.
“For he beheld that their afflictions had truly humbled them, and that they were in a preparation to hear the word.” Alma 32:6It hasn’t been until I’ve been able to incorporate a small dosage of humility into my life that I’ve been ready to hear the word of the Lord. I mean really hear what he was trying to tell me personally. Things have touched me and inspired me a ton in my life, but it hasn’t been until recently that the word of the Lord has begun to cause a change in me. It is said that God is no respecter of persons, only of humility and desire. How true those words ring. I have a very, very long way to go with my word, but I hope by the end of the year I will have been able to let this word humility work in my life through the Lord.