Lisa Notes has once again issued a challenge for her fellow One-Word 2025 participants:

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Alright, we’re 9 months into the year with our One Words. Can you believe it? I hope your word has been a helpful guide as you’ve walked through 2025 so far.

But our words still have more to teach us in these last few months of the year. Sometimes the biggest insights come when we lean in a little closer.

Here’s a simple practice to possibly uncover another layer of insight through your word:

1. DO A DEEP DIVE on the meaning of your word by looking it up on Wikipedia or another resource.

2. DISCOVER 2-3 NEW FACTS, angles, or connections you didn’t know before.

3. REFLECT:

• What surprised you?
• Does it shift your perspective in any way?
• Does it spark any new ways to practice your word in daily life?

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I want to start with an apology to my fellow One-Worders. Personal illness, travel, and the craziness of transitioning from summer camp to back-to-school at work have kept me from participating for the last couple of months.

Alright, let’s dig in…

Wikipedia provided a variety of links:

• Power cord, a flexible electrical cable.
• Flexible cable, an Electrical cable as used on electrical appliances
• Flexible electronics
• Flexible response
• Flexible-fuel vehicle
• Flexible rake receiver
• Flexible AC transmission system
• Semi-flexible rod polymer
• Flexible algebra, in non-associative algebras, for example alternative algebras
• Flexible polyhedron
• Flexible single master operation
• “Flexible”, a song by Depeche Mode
• Flexible mold
• Flextime, a variable work schedule
• Flexible spending account, a tax-advantaged savings account
• Flexible baton round, fired as a shotgun shell
• Flxible, originally the Flexible Sidecar Co.

The most intriguing to me was flexible algebra. Think about it from a kid’s perspective, flexible algebra means, “Any answer I come up with is right!” I would have been euphoric.

Unfortunately, that line of thinking doesn’t hold water in the real world. We cannot make up our own rules and expect everyone else to fall in line. Instead, we should weigh our decisions using God’s Word to balance the scale. Being flexible also means being ready for things to go sideways and trusting God to work out the details.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

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