COURAGE 2020 -try#2

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Greetings from the finally “warmer” and NO wind (for the day!) and the great White North!


As you might know, there is very little in my world that is ‘normal.’  In fact, I’m not sure I would recognize ‘normal’ if it gob-smacked me upside my head!  Why would I think that the start of 2022 would be any different? With power outages for a couple days (even with a generator and woodstove, ‘tis hard to stay warm when it gets to minus 20F and wind gusts were clocked at 90+ mph. Yep – it looks in places that the hurricane force winds hit with a vengeance around town. Unbelievable.


As I huddled under a warm blanket, watching the wind whisk the flying snow in sheets across our acreage, I was glad I had nowhere else to venture but in front of the woodstove. I made an executive decision that with the weather and the ongoing medical adventures I get to travel, THIS was a PERFECT time for a declared “Staycation.”  

Disclaimer: some of you in my peanut gallery thinking:  “since you are home-bound, medically, aren’t you on a permanent “staycation?” Point taken, but you are out of bounds, so sorry – no score! I do get out for regular glow-in-the-dark-by-now appointments (CT/MRI/x-ray)

While I enjoyed my ‘staycation’ I spent some of the limited time (but growing daily) light, to sit and ponder. Towards the end of each year I ask God to give me a “theme word or two” for the year to come.   Often, the full meanings of the word(s) are not comprehended to their fullest until December. God’s timing, eh?  The year Jamie and Baby Girl went Home my word was “LEAN IN” – man…was that ever appropriate. Last year, God gave me seven letters….and when re-arranged they were: silent and listen. Both words extremely appropriate for the daily battles and finishing Don’t Wimp Out!

This year, my theme word is COURAGE.  I made more than several attempts to ask God for a different word/theme, but to no avail.  The word alone conjures up visions where no visions of sugar plums dance in my head. So, here we go!
 I share the word so that you can cover my keister in prayer as I face each day with COURAGE, counting on you to  (lovingly) encourage me when I stray!  I have a difficult time pacing between my passion of writing and marketing Don’t Wimp Out! and listening to my body.

I know I will need COURAGE as I venture into marketing the book – something I was NOT intending to do, but have multiple affirmations we made the right decision.

So here’s to 2022 – with the verse found in Matthew 17:20: Faith CAN (and WILL and DOES) move mountains.  Thanks for being a special part of Team Tuk! May it be as blessed for you as you are to me!