This week we are in our Retreat Week mode on the school campus. It begins with faculty and staff meeting on Monday and then the different student classes have their retreats throughout the week. This year the facilitator for the faculty and staff retreat was a gentleman named Michael, from the University of San Diego. He asked us to embrace the Christmas feel and keep it with us. That it is not just a one day, one week or one month feeling, it should be embraced every day. At the end of the session he told us about Webster’s Dictionary having a word for the year. The 2025 word of the year is Slop. You can look that up. He then asked us to think about what our word for the coming year is and then asked us to share that word. My word is Faith.

The strength of my faith is becoming stronger. I am grateful for my faith, knowing that there is a creator and that I can lean on them when I need some help in my life.