For the past several years, I have entered each new year with a single word in prayer. Not as a goal to achieve or a theme to perform, but as a way of paying attention to what God might be inviting me into. It is less about choosing a direction and more about listening for one. A word becomes a lens, a quiet thread that runs beneath the months, often revealing its meaning slowly, sometimes not fully understood until much later. It is not something I strive to fulfill, but something I learn to recognize as it unfolds in real time.

As my 2025 word of the year, Beauty revealed something I never expected. It revealed the cost of living without walls.

As my 2025 word of the year, Beauty revealed something I never expected.

Instead of ease, the year was marked by pain. Loss. Abandonment.

Strain . . . both personally and within the vocation and work my family carries.

Beauty did not arrive as I expected it to.

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