this has already been a great week....
....got to celebrate my bday with friends, 9 bottles of wine, modern family and mini "nothing bundt cakes" = perfection.
....got to go to dinner with my parents, had the yummiest ice cream cake, got to talk to old friends who were sweet to call and tell me happy bday.
....greatest bday gift ever = season tickets to the wyly theater! mother daughter dates...here we come.
....and maybe the best part of all. knowing i get to be reunited with ALL of my best friends in one of my favorite cities for an entire weekend. to say i'm excited can't even begin to explain it.
i am one happy 25 year old. So grateful for this life i get to live and every single person in it. Sometimes i get overwhelmed at the love that surrounds me but when those moments come about, i try to push away the overwhelmingness and just soak it up and be GRATEFUL. because i know, what i have is so so soooo good. great friends. great family. great job. great life. definitely wouldnt have it any. other. way.
so since 25 is actually a 1/4 century, i say here's to trying new things, complaining a lot less, seeing at least ONE new city, and soaking up this life in every way possible. if i know one thing for sure, i know that this is the one life i got. here's to living it up!
He makes all things new. I think the last line of this little quote above says it all perfectly, "In the final analysis, it is between you and God; It never was between you and them anyway."
It's so easy to get caught up in drama and things that are so unimportant and so so distracting. it's like before i know it, i'm overwhelmed by so many things in life that give me no meaning, growth, challenge. i think the best way to describe it would be just feeling like i'm on autopilot. and i ask myself why it is so easy to get to that point so quickly??
what i want is a life full of meaning and Jesus and laughter. and dont get me wrong, i do have that. most of the time. but i want my mind to just be constantly focused on those things as well. i need accountability for being in the word more, volunteering at church more, but mainly i feel like that desire is missing at times to have those things fill my life.
but the best part about it all is, He makes all things new. He is always there to pick me back up, set me back on track, and encourage me along the way. and that is possibly the greatest peace that i have in my life. it challenges me to not be on autopilot but instead to wander off the path. try new things, do new things, love new people.
with Easter coming up i guess it all just becomes so weight-y...the sacrifice, suffering, forgiveness, grace. and ultimately i am still amazed that He chose me. what a God i get to serve that he would send His son to die on the cross for my stupid, ugly sins. that He loves me every. single. time i disappoint him, let him down. to type that out just makes me breath a sigh of relief, which is an understatement in a very big way.
i think i am just excited for april. ready to have my eyes and heart open to what the Lord is going to teach me. to just be in a state of gratefulness (pretty sure i made that word up) at the sacrifice He gave for me. and to just be grateful for what i have, live in the moment and not always be thinking about the next best thing.
cant seem to get this Hillsong song out of my head the past couple days.
"...God is with us
God is on our side
He will make a way
Far above all we know
Far above all we hope
He has done great things..."
raised to life, our God is able.
