GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.
There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.
I will be 33 in under 2 months and I, like most people, am feeling reflective over the past year and looking forward to the upcoming year. Although I am loathe to type it, I feel that so much of my life has been on hold for so long because of the things I have felt obligated to do. How has almost 33 years of my life gone by? Now don't get me wrong, I've done a lot, but there is still so much to experience. I feel like time is racing now and I just want to have fun on the journey. So many great people have come into and out of my life. Most recently I have been thinking about all the great women of God I have met over the past few years. Just think about it. How has God, in His divine grace and mercy, interceded on your behalf by putting just the right people in your life. People that make you think differently, challenge you to behave differently, and gently nudge you to expect more and demand more because you are a child of God? I see my Lord so clearly in the people He has blessed me with. Not perfect people........understand that please. But that's what makes it so great. In all of our imperfections, He's still God!!! He's still on the throne. How awesome is that. I don't have to do anything to add to Him. My entire life is about the gifts He is continually bestowing on me! Everyday He loves me. He is so REAL and has all of my heart. My prayer is that as I leap into the next year of my life that I will learn how to show my love for Him to others in my life. I am desperately in love with Him and I am so grateful that the God of love, who doesn't need me to add to Him, actually considers me everyday. I'm on His mind. WOW!!! How blessed I feel right now. I pray that you understand where I'm at........and if you don't I pray you will one day. I grow up everyday in my Lord Jesus Christ because He has given me the opportunity to do so. No, I'm not perfect....but I am His.
