I must admit, I don’t think I’ve ever done a New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion. Typ­i­cally, these res­o­lu­tions deal with weight or exer­cise; and to be hon­est, I am not a big fan of my tread­mill so they usu­ally don’t apply to me…

How­ever, this past year I have been read­ing the blog of Alece and recently, she has dis­cussed this idea of com­ing up with One Word for your year, pick­ing a word to focus on and to apply to your life for the year.

I really like that. I really like words and to come up with just one has got me think­ing. If you want to know more, you can read about it on her blog GritAndGlory.com.

So with­out fur­ther ado, my one word for this year is…undaunted.

Undaunted sim­ply means to be “coura­geously res­olute, espe­cially in the face of dan­ger or dif­fi­culty ” or “to not be intim­i­dated or dis­cour­aged by dif­fi­culty, dan­ger, or disappointment.”

I love the words used here in this def­i­n­i­tion, because this is where I want to focus my atten­tion and heart this year (e.g., res­olute, not intim­i­dated or dis­cour­aged, dis­ap­pointed, etc.). Inevitabil­ity, I know I will be fac­ing dif­fer­ent chal­lenges this year, and there­fore, in prepar­ing for that, I want to be “undaunted” in con­fronting those obsta­cles. In par­tic­u­lar, in how I face these dif­fi­cul­ties,  I want to con­tinue to grow in the fruit of the Spirit (Gala­tians 5:22–23)  so that I can react appro­pri­ately to these unavoid­able challenges.

So mov­ing for­ward into 2011, my word is undaunted: being con­fi­dent in who God made me to be, but more impor­tantly, trust­ing the One Word who goes ahead of me in all that I do.