In Which She Turns 35

 

When I turned 30, I took 10 days here to talk about each year from my 20’s.  If you want to recount my college-graduating, marrying, having-baby days, they’re quick reads. Just remember they’re written from the 5-years-ago Amy at 29.

 

20th year /  21st-year / 22nd-year / 23rd-year / 24th-year / 25th-year / 26th-year / 27th-year / 28th-year / 29th-year

 

If you remember the original posts, you get 1000 extra bloggy points today! Thanks for traveling this road with me.

I wanted to pull out a section from that last post where I document wishes for the decade I’m exactly halfway through today (Yes, I’m 35 today!).

In the next ten years, I hope to be a better Amy, closer to God than ever before, raise two precious little girls as best I can and make the most of every single opportunity I have.  Try not to be so busy I miss out on precious time I have with my family and yet seize fun opportunities as they come along. 

I’m 5 years in and I can see I have changed.  The 30’s have been teaching me who I really am. 

I’ve shed a lot of my insecurities, settled into “the middle”, captured my role as a homemaker and have been gripped more than ever with love for Jesus.

At 40, there won’t be a list of long life-changing events like there were in the 20’s but the changes internally in the 30’s have been astounding.

I ran into these verses and they couldn’t be more appropriate for today:

Psalm 39.
4 “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.
Remind me that my days are numbered—
how fleeting my life is.
5 You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.
My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;
at best, each of us is but a breath.”

My life is just a moment, but a moment nonetheless and I’m celebrating at this milestone all that God is doing. 

Thank you for being a part of that.  Esther’s words ring in my ear, for such a time as this.  How fun that we get to share our lives across these wires, unlike any other generation ever? YOU are my gift today.