The Day of My Birth

Today I turn 27. It's not a magical number, but it is only 3 years shy of a new decade of life. As I have been thinking/reflecting on the past 365 days of my life as a 26 year old, I have to be honest. 26 was pretty much the worst year of my life, but at the same time a lot of what made it the worst also made it the best. It has been a year of extreme heartache, hurt, pain, healing, joy, accomplishments and excitement. It's the year my best friend got married, the year my baby niece arrived to our hearts from Korea, the year I got accepted to every grad school I applied and agonized over where to go, it's the year I moved and fulfilled a dream of oh so long! It is a year where the Lord through every twist and turn, every trial, every valley, every drought,every tear, every smile, was there faithfully leading me, faithfully molding me and shaping me into the woman He has created me to be.
This year can really be summed up in Sara Groves' Song Less Like Scars.

It's been a hard year
But I'm climbing out of the rubble
These lessons are hard
Healing changes are subtle
But every day it's

Less like tearing, more like building
Less like captive, more like willing
Less like breakdown, more like surrender
Less like haunting, more like remember

And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands, a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
Look less like scars and more like
Character

Less like a prison, more like my room
It's less like a casket, more like a womb
Less like dying, more like transcending
Less like fear, less like an ending

And I feel you here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands, a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
Look less like scars

Just a little while ago
I couldn't feel the power or the hope
I couldn't cope, I couldn't feel a thing
Just a little while back
I was desperate, broken, laid out, hoping
You would come

And I need you
And I want you here
And I feel you

And I know you're here
And you're picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands, a bad, bad situation
But you are able

And in your hands the pain and hurt
Look less like scars (x3)

And more like
Character


I am so humbled to be where I am today and am so thankful for the healing power and restoration that my God is capable of. As I look to this next year of my life I am filled with anticipation, joy, and hope knowing "that He who began a good work in me will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" Phil 1:6