Defining 2013

If you could have one word that described your year what would it be?  This was the question Mom asked me one chilly Sunday evening as we took a walk bundled in our sweatshirts and beanies.  I guess it’s a popular thing going around in the blog-sphere…to pick a word that defines 2013. 

I thought about it and batted around different ideas before the word really landed on me.  Literally...that just kind of what happened.  It landed and I just had to catch it in time.  When I looked to see just what word I was holding I saw it was the word…

SATISFIED

Perfect.  That is indeed my word for the year. 

 I want to be satisfied with God….with what He is…with what He is not….with what He gives… with what He withholds….with the unknowns…with the chronic fatigue….with the growth I am experiencing in my spiritual walk... with the reality that I cannot fix the problems my friends are facing….

Oh, there is so much more that I wish to be satisfied with, and yet it all revolves around being satisfied in God and His activity in my life and the lives of those around me: my family, my friends, my church and my nation.   It isn’t about quenching the insatiable desires with therapeutic things so that I don’t feel or want or pine for.  It is about my relationship with Jesus.  When satisfied with Him I can feel hurt or happiness fully, I can be full or lack, I can be perceived as an excellent or mediocre …. and it is all ok. 

If SATISFIED is the word to define 2013 for me…..what would yours be?