PARTY!!!

I was meeting up with Y yesterday and she asked my birthday...and so I said November...

and then it hit me! It's my birthday month!...and I almost forgot!

Wow. I should PARTY. 

live it up. 

I'm just getting old.

so I should PARTY.

while I can still walk.

I mean, I can barely stay up past 9:30pm these days.

so my time is short.

Ok, but for real,

I started thinking how I should celebrate

the fact that this is my first birthday

where there will be no exams

to cloud the PARTYING.

But after a much more coherent strain of thoughts,

I started thinking about how I want to begin my 24th year of life

I have 2 years until the quarter-century mark

Did you ever have those thoughts:

By the time I'm 25 I'll be...fill in the blank.

consistent in my walk

settled at a job

married

serving

I've fluctuated on my fill in the blanks, but when I think of it now,

I live so much on who I want to be that day

if God is good today, I will be joyful

if I have meetings, I will be tired

if I have time, I'll invest in people

Ok, I guess that's not so much how my thoughts go everyday,

but subconsciously, honestly, I can see the fluctuations

in my emotions/attitudes depending on the external/environmental. 

I am grateful that the Lord has grown me to realize that

the measure of my faith is no longer in a place of such fluctuation,

but often I am not working towards the person I want to be

then.

So this birthday month, I want to work on that person.

I want to work on the person I want to be then.

Not living outside of the present, 

but living with purpose to be the

woman I know God wants me to be

then.

Please celebrate my birthday month with me 

and join me in this endeavor

I will be reading through the Old Testament throughout the month of November. 

I hope that as I do this, 

He will encourage me to be 

extravagant

in the ways that I live out my life for Him.

To not just expect growth, but push for growth.

To live every year with a purpose.

As He has lead his people through and out of the wilderness

He has cared for them

He has rebuked them and taught them through His prophets

He prepared the way for His glory to come down as man

He has used men and women of faith

to do His will.

I know that this month

 He will lead me and you out of our wildernesses

He will care for us

He will rebuke and teach us through His prophets

He will prepare the way for more of His glory to come down on our hearts

He will use the men and women of faith to

increase our faith to do His will.

Come let us be extravagant.

PARTY WITH ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY MONTH.

*I hope to post daily a verse/passage that has encouraged me,and I hope that if you join me

you too will feel the urging to post either anonymously or not*

**We are already down 5 days...so let's get to it!**