...what would it be? I ask this question every year.  I love to hear the answers that everyone has to give.  Some years are hard.  Others are wonderful.  I love to hear the stories that come with them. At the beginning of 2015, my one word was faith. I thought that maybe, by the end of the year, my ending word would be different, but I can't describe the year any differently than how I intended it to be.  It was faith that we relied on, and it was faith that grew each and every day, week, and month this year…

I don't know about you, but the holidays just seem to have crept up behind me and left me in the dust.  I was caught up in a whirlwind of parties and gifts, decorating and baking.  Now my entire world seems to have stopped in the middle of that whirlwind and dropped, because all that's left is a great big mess.  It's not that this whirlwind was anything inherently bad, because none of it is.  It's just that, when you get caught up in all of the stuff, you seem to let go of the important things.  You know, the things that…