30 is just 10 days away now…that big bold number looms in
front of me.
It’s not that I’m afraid of
it.
I know it won’t really change
anything.
But there it is.
Big. Bold. Round.
I’m the last of most of my friends to turn
thirty so at this point it really just seems inevitable, expected.

My twenties are rapidly coming to an end.
It’s been an amazing, beautiful decade of
life.
Over the last ten years I have
accomplished more quantifiable achievements than I may in any of the decades to
come.
I graduated college, got engaged
and married to a faithful, loving man, who continually keeps me on my toes,
completed a masters degree, gave birth to two amazing little boys, and moved to
a foreign country.

Parenting those two precious little men will probably be my
greatest accomplishment over the next couple of decades.
I’m not belittling this task by any
means.
I know that some of my greatest
challenges are ahead of me.
I still have
so much to learn as a parent; so much to experience alongside them.
I’m looking forward to it and terrified by it
all at the same time.
Yes, there is much beauty and challenge yet to be had in
this next decade that begins with a 3. I
think I’m ready to embrace it with open arms.
My life is full of so many wonderful things already and so many memories
to look back on in thankful wonder. I’m
humbled at the thought that God still has more in store for me - more gifts to
add, more grace to bestow, more challenges to grow and shape me.
Bring it on 30. I’m
ready for you!
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