My 2017 WORD is clarify - simplify, make easy, intelligible
I would like to have clarity in my faith, in my marriage, in my health, and in helping my son. I would like to de-clutter and make easy in all these areas and cut to the chase and be clear. After living for four months away back with my dad and step mom while my DS13 attended an outpatient intensive OCD therapy, I learned to live with few things and just do the basics and ... it was quite freeing!! Oh yes, it was hard work helping my DS, but when all I had was him to focus on and not all the clutter in my house and all those little things that end up being time wasters ... stuff can really be focused on!
So for me, clarify what it is to simply keep my eyes on Jesus, to be a caring wife, to eat to live and not live to eat, and to clarify what helping my son fight OCD looks like ... not reassuring, second guessing myself, and enabling, but be strong in letting him feel the anxiety, work through it, make better neuro-pathways and problem solve himself. These are the things he learned at therapy. They boiled it down to the basics as well ... they clarified what it is to fight OCD/Anxiety and what it’s not. He worked hard to get us back home and is in a better place than when we left to go there. Amen!
So, onward to clarify and 2017.