40 years
2. If you're breathing you have purpose
3. People will come and go, but the ones God's given you today are a gift.
4. God answers every prayer
5. Its not about what we have but about what we give away
6. You are actually given more than you can handle
7. Passion is not a personality
8. Hope is a person
9. You're only expected to take the next best step
10. Kids grow up faster than you can blink
11. Pray often
12. This earth is not your home
13. It's ok to cry
14. Living in the country is better than living in the city
15. God is good
16. Life is better together
17. Reading isn't overrated
18. Exercise is the best medicine
19. No Reserves, No retreats, No regrets
20. Less is more
21. You will never save enough money, you will never have enough money, and you can't take it with you
22. Raising teenagers is pure joy.
23. Family is everything
24. Embrace Change
25. Seek adventure
26. Apologize
27. Not everyone will support you. Not everyone will be on your team.
28. You don't know what your future holds
29. It's all part of God's plan and its for your good
30. Your past does not define you.
31. God can redeem ANYTHING
32. You never know who you will cross paths with and what role they will play in your life, it could be years and year laster. be kind.
33. The work you do is meaningless unless it is met with God's call on your life.
34. Trust your instinct, that nudge, the Holy Spirit, it will lead you where you are supposed to go.
35. Anticipate life. Live expectant.
36. If don't look to see what God is doing, you could miss it.
37. You're greatest test is your greatest testimony.
38. How God made you is part of how he will use you
39. Jesus is over everything.
40. For as it has been written... Though our outer self is wasting away, inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of Glory beyond all comparison. (2 Cor. 4)
For my 40th we celebrated at our annual Fundraiser for Radiant Hope. I still sit in awe of the work God has done and where he has allowed me to have a window into it. I never thought I would see 40. Actually at the cancer diagnosis that was one thing that I mourned, the possibility of seeing more years, growing old. Why do we see growing old as such a hack when it's such a privilege. I watched over the years since women and men begrudgingly jump into the next decade of their life, moaning and groaning about being old. WHYYYY. I swore to myself that if God granted me the ability to see 40, that it would be a wild celebration of all that he has done. Each and every day is gift from above and I promised that with each new morninbg mercies, whatever may come to pass, would be met with Hope and Joy. Also since this revelation, I have watched many young, near 40, mommies and daddies leave this earth and LOTS behind. And I have been left to watch those they have left behind grieve their loss while also seeing their gain. Perspective changes everything.
God has numbered our days and so with faith and trust I will step into the next decade, Lord willing, with the same heart and purpose. Today is but a breath. But it is his breath in my lungs. I owe it all to him.
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