Redeemed
I am not big on New Year’s Resolutions. I have nothing against you if you are into it, in fact I used to get really into setting resolutions. But I never kept them all year… ever… and that became depressing, so I quit. For the past few years I have embraced a different concept. I name each year. It is based on the concept of “One Word” , but I am too wordy to keep it at a mete word most years. I loved Ann Voskamp's perspective as well, " but as we name our newborn, so we name our new year, christen it so it knows who it is to us. Named, we now have a destination, a way across the next twelve months." We are very close to the start of 2018, and the year is BEGGING me to settle on a name. So I have! REDEEMED Isaiah 43 is such a powerful chapter of scripture and has shaped this name. But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed y