At the beginning of the year, when I was trying to think of a word to focus on as my annual theme, the phrase “Expect a Blessing” kept coming to mind.
I tried to shorten it to “expect” or “blessing.” I even looked for something else altogether. But it came back to me again and again. Browsing a cute little gift store in town, the same three words greeted me on a hand-painted sign, and I said to myself, Okay, okay, I get it.
I wrote “Expect a Blessing” on the inside flap of my journal and vowed to mean it. I said it whenever a worry came into my thoughts. Instead of imagining the worst of any given situation, I countered it with the best. Even if a blessing…
