Tuesday, March 27, 2012

It's Just A Number


So this past weekend I turned 35.  Yeah, it’s not that high of a number, and to me it really doesn’t mean that much.  Some of the earlier numbers have had more meaning.  16 is when you get to drive, 18 vote, and 21 you get to drink.  All of those were good numbers for me, including many in between.  Yet, when 30 came around I got depressed.  I don’t know why, and it didn’t last long, but that one hit me hard.  I was wondering if 35 would be the same way but it wasn’t, thankfully.  Instead I had a great weekend with loved ones doing things I don’t get to do very often.  It wasn’t even really a speed bump in my life, just another special day instead.

I think the reason that my birthday didn’t bug me this time around is because I have a stronger walk with God than I did in the past.  I’ve come to realize that a birthday is another day on the calendar.  That with each year that I gain on this planet, it’s just more experience that He’s giving me in order to reach others for Him.  It’s that perspective I’ve taken into this new year of my life.  I realize, as I wrote a few weeks ago, that this is not where I belong and that I’m here for His purpose. 

That view on life makes every day worth living for me, how about you?  

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