Last year I turned 25 and the whole year was pretty much horrible. I called it my half way to 50 year and my quarter life crisis year. Everything bad that happened during that year I blamed on my quarter life crisis. I did not by any means want to turn 25. I know this sounds silly for those of you over that age, but I just did not have a good outlook on that year. I didn't set any goals for what I wanted to accomplish in my personal life, my ministry life, my relational life or even my financial life. So I went into the year with this horrible attitude about my life.
This year I decided it would be different. 26. I have claimed things over my life that I've almost been fearful to put much thought into before. I have goals set in four main areas of my life: personal, ministry, relational and finanical. These goals I set helped push me to a greater understanding of who God has called me to be as a women and what He wants to do with my life. I have accepted 26 not as getting older, but getting wiser. I don't want to become younger, for with age comes wisdom and beauty, and though I would love to cling to my young innocent past as a girl. I am now a woman of God who knows that she is loved, beautiful, called, and that I have dreams and plans for my life that only God could ever achieve. I am thrilled to be 26, I have taken my time that I used to squander and replaced it to build life, to mentor, study, read, build relationships, work, minister, and enjoy this wonderful life God has blessed me with.
I will no longer look at the glass half full. I will no longer see being single as a disease, but as a season, and most importantly as a gift from God. I will no longer make excuses that I have no time, I will make time for the things that have priorities in my life. I will no longer be disappointed from my mistakes, instead I will learn from my mistakes. I will no longer speak negative words over my life, but I will begin to speak scripture over my life.
I'm 26, and it's only the beginning.
