Friday, July 10, 2009

Swimming In the Deep End

It is midnight, which means that I am now 38 years old. Gag me.

I am celebrating by wearing my birthday jewelry, enjoying time with the fam, and indulging in red velvet birthday cake. And I just found a june bug crawling on me. Gag me again.

"It was 20 years ago today (Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play)", when I was at Neat Week, rooming with Carrie Jane Hicks, taking a huge stack of clep tests, and wondering what my life at college would be like. I pretty much got it all wrong. But I managed to clep 18 hours, get a degree, get a job in my field, get married, get kids, and get much more wisdom from a series of 1,000,000 decisions that have forever changed my world.

So here's to everyone, who upon reaching the deep end of their 30s, who knows that life cannot be predicted, that the impossible is bound to happen, and that joy will be found in the most unexpected places. After years of second guessing, I can no longer deny that God has controlled it all and my job is to give Him the glory.

I'm signing off now - I just batted away another june bug and the stupid things are creeping me out.

No comments:

Post a Comment