AEzine Challenge: one little word

From Issue Eleven of the AEzine: This week your challenge is to create something, anything, that celebrates your chosen word for 2007. Maybe a layout. Maybe a blog posting or a journal entry or a simple post-it note that you put somewhere you can see it each day. Make sure to journal about why you chose your word and what it means for you - the more you let yourself explore the more benefit you will receive in the end.

I am hoping I was able to jot all of your words down - the response has been phenomenal. Please let me know if I missed yours, of if you are adding a new one today I will catch it later on and add it onto the master list of amazing, wonderful, inspirational words.

Here you go:

Go
Accomplish
Peace
Risk
Joy
Believe
Connect
Light
Embrace
Yes
Being
Be
Simplify
Acceptance
Savor
Dream
Resolve
Reinvent
Change
Organize
Grateful
Simplicity
Balance
Hope
Obey
Grace
Commit
Attitude
Less
Play
Trust
Create
Health
Calm
Heal
Relax
Do
Happiness
Art
Move
Truth
Fear
Patience
Harmony
Accomplish
Management
Enrichment
Grow
Celebrate
Bliss
Perspective
Life
Free
Prosperity
Enjoy
Time
Respect
Content
Humanitarian
Contentment
Faith
Learn
Share
Strength
Freedom
Action
Believe
Love
Begin
Reinvent
Happy
Wife
Well-Being
Evoke
RockStar
Accept
Thanks
Focus
Care
Shed
Live
Together
Enrich
Open
Stop
Possibilities
Roots
Explore
Mindful
Fresh
Satisfaction
Now
renaissance
Flow
Try
Trust
Breathe
Restore
Appreciate
Compromise
Serenity
Fly
Hush
Forgive
Finish
Authentic
Diligence
His
Beauty
Adventure
Invincible
Healing
Reward
Sacrifice
NotToBeAfraidAnymore
DailyCarpeDiem
Imagine
Venture
Wonderful
Place
Capture
Life is a Beautiful Place to Be
Observe
Stewardship
Jump
Journey
Achieve
Elements
Fancy
Daily
Full
Fruition
Cherish
Learn
Generosity
Proud
Godwinks
Smile
Harmony
Vivacious
Imperturbable
Important
Balanced
S T O P
Seek
Enjoy

Wow. I am seriously wowed by this list. By the creative and touching and tough words you chose. By your willingness to do something. So proud of each and every one of you.

As for me, I have my word (peace) up on my wall in my studio and a magnet on my fridge that reads:

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard word. It means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. (unknown author)

My Mom also sent me a reminder of the Prayer of St. Francis today...it fits in with what I want for myself this year (and in my entire life):

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; 

to be understood as to understand; 

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; 

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I am so looking forward to seeing how you have been inspired to creatively document your word.

Happy Monday!