28th Birthday
This is directly from my journal as I wrote it. I'm being pretty open and vulnerable!!
As I was waking up this morning I was thinking about the last year of my life. I thought I'd list some things that happened while I was 27.
- Met Kristina Bergan and she became a Christian
- New roommates from Kali, Patricia, Natasha to Mary Beth, Heidi, Ashley
- Adriana moved to Virginia with COVE team (Radford Campus)
- Kristin & Sam got pregnant and just had little Lily 2 weeks ago :)
- I got my new white Honda Accord 2002 and Carrie Henson named her LaFonda
- Jeff finished college at UNCC
- Deddy started a new job and left Tidewater
- Papal got a new car
- Bacon died
- I lived in the Dirty South with Megan Long for the summer
- Went to Paris in April '06 to visit Renee & Tiffany....so awesome
- Friends got married (Clint & Rachel, Drew & Katie, Ashlee & Barrett, Patrica & Alex, Heather & Tyler)
- CB moved
- Laryssa came back from Vienna
- Took a class with staff team on Sanctification
- Carley was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through treatment
- Bradley started working for a driving company
- Amy Crook & Emily Reynolds came on staff
- Been in my house for 2 years
- Fiona died (neighbor's dog)
Written a few weeks before turning 28:
"As I think about turning 28 next month I have so much anxiety. It is now very strange to still be single at this age. Up until 26 it was still so normal. My friends are having children. Their children will babysit mine at this rate. I'm not feeling intense emotion around this at the moment but I do regularly, very regularly. The fear is overwhelming. Like today I am okay but it doesn't take much for me to plummet downward into a very low place. I feel like I am disappointing my family and those around me because I haven't "achieved" marriage. Ultimately I feel it is my fault and there is something I should be doing to change my situation. I feel like I haven't been given a choice about singleness. It's been given to me, decided for me."
"Your head may never on this earth wear a veil, but one day it shall wear a crown." Reworded quote from Spurgeon
