sensing excitement

  As the excitement of Christmas has come to a close, an every-other-year excitement has been growing. Our ballet this coming summer is going to be about the life of Helen Keller. Just before Christmas break, casting was announced, and I was given the part of adult/elderly Helen. This will be my last ballet with the homeschool dance program, and I am so thankful to get to share the experience with many dear friends! 

   The ballet is told through flashbacks, with adult/elderly Helen remembering certain momentous parts of her life. My teachers have set quotes by Helen Keller to instrumental songs, and we had the opportunity to dance to one of these pieces for the audition. Here's a peak at it~  

“It seems to me that there is in each of us a capacity to comprehend the impressions and emotions which have been experienced by mankind from the beginning. Each individual has a subconscious memory of the green earth and murmuring waters, and blindness and deafness cannot rob him of this gift from past generations. This inherited capacity is a sort of sixth sense- a soul-sense which sees, hears, feels, all in one.” ~Helen Keller 

     This quote, and really the whole ballet, has me thinking about senses. Thus, when contemplating a word for 2014, sense is what has come to mind. It should be interesting, as my Myers Briggs personality is intuitive rather than sensing, and I'm excited explore it further.

     Hope you have a very happy new year! (and if you, too, have chosen a word for the year, I'd love to hear it!) 

^ posing with a friend at my church's New Year's Eve lock-in :) 

All, This Year

Last January was the first time I named my year.
I chose the word grace.
It easily applied to whatever I did.
It guided me through many new experiences.
How should I go about anything and everything?
With grace.

I enjoyed having this word.
I knew I wanted to name my year again.
As 2011 drew to a close, I began to think and pray about a new word.
The one that came to my mind was all.

I wondered about it.
All is very different from grace.
It is much harder to define.
It was not something I wanted to be.
Yet I continued to hear it.
Hear it until I knew.

All. 

My word for the year is all.
I am curious about what it will come to mean to me.
Until then I will have to simply give it my all.

If you chose a word for this year, I would love to hear it. Blessings~ Megan

Naming a Year

It started one week ago.  I couldn't quite figure it out.  Why name a year?  And yet, there it was.  I first heard about through my Mom, who had named the year for the first time.  My Mom had heard about it here.  I could recognize the beauty in it, but was still far from actually naming a year myself.  

Then I was seeing it.  More people I knew were choosing names for 2011.  Over and over I found myself inspired.  I would read a word and taste its sweetness.  However, I would think, even if I did name the year, I couldn't choose just one name. 

 Then, during the minutes transitioning from the full day to my sleep, I understood.  I realized my word.

I knew my word for the year is grace.      

It had been showing up in all sorts of places.  


Before Christmas and my birthday I had puzzled over the idea of growing gracefully.

Doing ballet, I have worked hard to dance with grace.

Believing in Jesus, I have been enveloped in grace.    

Christmas morning came and what did I receive?  A necklace (made by a friend who also named  her year) with words on it picked for me by my Mom.   

always grace.

Let go of perfection.  Always grace. 

I still haven't completely figured it out.  I simply see that for me, this year is a year of grace.  ~Megan

 

If you too are naming your year, please share!