Thank you to the wonderful guest bloggers who filled this space with such great energy in the month of December!
I’ve been moved and inspired by all of the stories of expansion and manifesting, and I’m blessed to know each of you through your writing!
(There are two final Word-of-the-Year articles that will be posted here over the weekend. They were turned in a little late – and they’re so good that I had to include them in the series! Look for them this weekend!)
Today’s word is actually a song.
It’s my New Year’s gift to you…
I wrote this about five years ago on New Year’s Eve – when I was asking myself if I could finally choose joy. It’s called “Overjoyed.”
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s shine in 2009!
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Christine~ Thank you so much for showcasing so many inspiring guest bloggers this past month. Inspired by your idea and others who posted, I’ve written my about my own word for the year on my blog (http://blog.ceskyjewels.com). I look forward to continue to read your blog in 09! Here’s to a happy and prosperous new year! christy
Happy New Year to you Christine. Thank you for all the support and inspiration your blog provides throughout the year. And thanks for giving me the opportunity to be one of your guest bloggers.
Rhiannon
Thank you Christine! Beautiful song. Your blog and music has helped me in so many ways. I am grateful for the richness each post sparks in my thinking. Happy New Year to you. Even more success to you in 2009!
Blessed New Year Christine! Thank you for your guidance and wisdom this past year. May 2009 be full of goodness and love for you and yours.
Have a great New Year, Christine! (Overjoyed is my favorite song
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I really enjoyed reading each post this month. This was a fabulous idea. That’s one of my favorite songs on “A Friday Night in One Lifetime.”
I have finally chosen my 2009 word and will be posting about it tomorrow.
I have drawn so much inspiration from your blog and from all the guest writers this past month. Thanks to all of you for sharing. After journaling and settling on one word, the very next day a new one came through with much conviction and decisiveness. Funny how that happens. You’ve actually ended your post with it. Shine.
A shining and wonderous new year to everyone!
So much inspiration here all year. Thank you Christine. My word is incubating still, but it’s on it’s way!
Your song is beautiful – I loved the lyrics. I’m going back to listen again.
This is such a beautiful song — totally made me cry… Thank you for the amazing inspiration, support and encouragement that you provide through this blog, and through your music. I can’t even begin to tell you how your messages have touched my soul… thank you for sharing so much wisdom — so much grace — and so much humor with all of us. The very best of New Year’s wishes to you!
Thank you for this beautiful song. I have been so inspired by the words chosen this month. Happy New Year to all.
Thanks for sharing this song! Fabulous. A lovely way to close out the year. And thanks again for the guest post spot. Happy New Year!
Hi Christine,
I count your music and your blog (and it’s readers!) as one of many blessings that I am counting today. Here is wishing all of you a year of miracles in 2009. Blessings, Tracy
Christine, thank you for the month of “Word of the Year” stories! I looked forward to reading them each day. It was wonderful to see how each person lived their word. I hope you make this an annual tradition.
Thank you so much for your neverlasting inspiration. Hope you get everything you wish for others!
My word for 2009 will be ‘Active’, Looking forward to what 2009 will bring.
Christine,
Thank you for the beautiful song. Thank you for opening your blog for the word of the year. I have change my mind a few times these days for my word of the year. I will see. Let you know soon. Have a wonderful New Year and best wishes for the new year. Thank you for everything.
just popping in to say happy new year! thanks for sharing so much of your insight with all of us. I want to thank you for turing me on to the word of the year concept – I really think it made a difference last year (my word was fire). This year I’m goin’ with FOCUS. Let’s dial it in!
Thank you for this lovely song, Christine, and for all your work this past year! A very happy 2009 to you and to all the readers of your blog!
Thank you for being such an inspiration during 2008. May you have happiness and success in all you do in the next twelve months.
Hogmanay Greetings from Scotland !
Thank you so much for the opportunity to contribute as well as for this life-changing New Year’s exercise and just for the blog as a whole. You rock.
Happy New Year!
Thank you for all the encouragement to grow and stretch myself in 2008.
My word of the year is Courage.
Thank you all for this community of conciousness.
Love, Peace and All Things Good,
Maggie
Amazingly enough I have been reading your blog for over a year now and had not yet listened to a note of your music. Plenty of “I’ll get around to thats” and “Next times”. Serves me right – I am now sitting in work with my headphones on and holding back the tears of joy at this song being the first of yours I have listened to. It is so pure. All the joy in the world to you in 2009.
Hi Christine,
Thank you for this! You, Christine, are truly a gift to this world. Seeing the many, many shared experiences with this concept, over the course of this past month – has really been a true testament to the power behind this concept of one word!
Your song here is beautiful. You message, always, inspiring. Your gifts, endless…
May your new year be filled with as much abundance as you give out yourself – an overflowing cup of goodness to our world!
Happy New Year!
Christine,
Thanks for the lovely song. The best gifts always come from the heart, don’t they. Hmmm. Heart could be a cool word for someone.
I also appreciated the opportunity to blog about my precious word Genius. It has changed my life in many wonderful ways. Double thanks!
And although I didn’t intend to do it, I read and wrote a comment for every other blogger’s word of the year. It became a wonderful, upbeat way to start the day. I miss it already.
Wishing you continued magnificence in 2009! Thx G.
Christine,
That song always brings tears to my eyes, and makes me want to sing!!!
My word for 2008 was create. Create is exactly where I was last year… trying out my power as a deliberate creator… creating art… creating peace in my home.
I was thrilled to be able to attend your retreat in November…you are an amazing, inspirational person
Present, creative, lovely. The whole experience was exactly what I needed, especially the time to reflect. I was able to really focus in on what I wanted to do differently in 2009.
This year my word is Allow. More about Be-ing than Do-ing. I’m learning that the most fabulous things come with Grace…effortlessness (hmmmmm, that would be a good word too!) and without force. I don’t have to DO anything, just Allow myself to be in alignment with total Well-Being. The ease of that is just yummy to me…
Peace & Abundance, Cid
Thank you!
Love the song! Love your voice!
Happy New Year! This song made me walk up to say hi to you at Proctor’s theatre in Albany NY after your show. So glad I did.
Love, Andrea
This was the first time I’d heard this song. It brought tears to my eyes; not only does the subject strike a chord, but so does the beautiful honesty in your voice. Thanks, I needed that.
Dear Christine!
Wow! I just came across overjoyed on a playlist here:
http://optimisticvoices.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-in-trenches-john-mccutcheon.html
Eleven good tunes there! (on some live radio link
I feel so blessed to have found it! Thank you, Christine, for this deeply life-affirming song! I can’t wait to learn it and share it and tell people your name! I will encurge all friends to buy it on Itines too – or to get the CD.
May we all become more identified with that Inner Light! And may your song be a light for so many that struggle now through pain and anger and depresion — even those in the Dark Night of the Soul.
Om shanti
Shyam in Capitola, California