2025 Year of expansion
2025 year of expansion: word of the year
What is a Word of the year?
I’ve picked a word for the year for about 5ish years now. Some call it a guiding word or theme word for the year.
It’s essentially a word that reflects what your hopes or needs are for the year head. The word reflect the theme, or intentions for your year. It serves as a guide, a compass or a reminder of who you are becoming.
Ideally your word will tie into your goals and your bigger picture vision for your life.
The word you choose may represent way you want to grow, a word that challenges you for more. It could be a word that roots or grounds you in your beliefs and how you want to perceive and interact with your year.
I made this video some years back on how to choose your word of the year and in My VIP subscribers library I also have printables you can work through.
My Word of the Year
My word of the year is EXPANSION. This year I prayed more about my word and felt it needed to be more connected with my faith too.
I decided to look at the word in the Bible and in this video I share more about what the word means, the Bible passages that anchor my word and my own journey this last year that led to this being my word.
The Hebrew word most connected to expansion or expand is enlarge, which appears 25 times in the Old Testament, is Rachab: to be or grow wide or large.
Strongs 7343 Rachab: To be wide, to be spacious, to enlarge
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In this episode, the host shares their word of the year: expansion.
They reflect on how this aligns with their personal journey, particularly after a constricting year filled with challenges.
**Key Points Discussed:**
**Word of the Year:**
The importance of intentionally choosing a word and praying about it. The host emphasizes a deeper exploration of the word ‘expansion’ compared to previous years. –
**Personal Experience:**
Last year felt constricted, both physically and metaphorically. The host discusses how stress and anxiety manifested as physical tightness and shallow breathing. –
**Mindfulness Practices:**
The host has begun to check in with their body during moments of stress, emphasising deep breathing to counter feelings of constriction. –
**Financial Challenges:**
The discussion touches on the impact of rising living costs and how it affected their household, highlighting feelings of being financially squeezed. –
**Faith Journey:**
The journey into deeper faith during difficult times, navigating feelings of stagnation or regression while believing in God’s promise of growth and expansion.
This episode encourages listeners to reflect on their own words for the year and consider how they can embrace personal growth and expansion in their lives.
Resources
The New Strongs Exhaustive Bible Concordance (Available on most book stores)
