Love is my word for the year. Simple yes but just look at these verses and see the challenge of it.

1 John 4:8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

and the kicker...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends...

What a year it will be as I remember and challenge myself to live in that kind of love!
Happy New Year!
Love, Cynthi