One Word 365 - Whole



I am a little late to this party, but I happened onto a website today called One Word 365.  http://oneword365.com/about/  In a nutshell, you choose one word that will help you live out or shape who you are for that year.  The word may guide your decisions, give you something to reflect on that will challenge you and inspire you for the year.  So, I decided to take this challenge and use the next 6 months to live up to my one word that I have selected.

 

Whole

 

 

The World English Dictionary defines the word as follows:

 

1.	containing all the component parts necessary to form a total; complete

3.	uninjured or undamaged
4.	healthy

8.	in an undivided or unbroken piece

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as a whole considered altogether; completely I choose this particular word for this year because I do not feel whole.  I liked the irony of the picture of bread.  Whole Wheat bread with a hole in it.  And amazingly the hole is right where a heart would be (if the bread was a person).  I had BIG changes this year.  I got married.  Moved to a different state and away from my sister and my daughter (who is a Sophomore at Wichita State University).  Our house in Kansas has not sold.  Most all of my belongings are still there and my husband keeps telling me that he doesn't like clutter and is afraid of all the "stuff" that I will be moving into our house in Missouri.  Don't get me wrong...I love my new life, but I am just feeling a tinsy bit unsettled.  Okay, more than a tinsy bit;)  I keep telling myself that when the sale of the house is final and I get everything finalized in Kansas that I will feel a lot better.  I hope this is the case, but for now I am feeling less than whole. I am feeling broken and divided.  With the help of my online bible study buddies, the bible and an awful lot of prayer..I plan on erasing this feeling and I look forward to the end of the year when I can finally say that I feel completely, altogether whole.