Sweet 32, the Beginning of a Whole New Chapter!

 I’m turning 32 tomorrow! And I’m soooo excited for this next chapter of my life.

In my blog description I write that, “I’m a woman who’s hoping to find love and stability as I enter my thirties…” Well, I’m proud to say that I’ve found it.😊 I’ve found love and stability within myself.

At the beginning of this journey, and for most of my life, I was looking outwardly for these things. While looking in all the wrong places, I found a lot of wrong things, wrong people, wrong habits. I found a lot that didn’t serve me. As soon as I started looking within, the answers started coming, the healing started coming, courage and hope filled my heart and life. As soon as I began to celebrate the good in me and the good around me, more blessings and joy came my way.

Now, there’s a lot that I still want out of life, there’s so much I still want to do and accomplish; I feel like I’ve hardly begun living, yet I’ve lived such a full life already. And I’m really excited for the future! But in the same breath, I’m extremely content. I’m at peace with my life, my thoughts, my faith, my emotions. It’s beautiful to witness. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good and so calm. So confident, so secure, so grounded, so hopeful, so loved. And it comes from inside, not from an external source.

I’m not saying everything is going well in my life. Far from it. Like most people, I have many challenges that I’m facing right now; relationally, financially, vocationally, mentally, but I choose peace while I work through them. These external issues CANNOT steal my peace. I won’t let them, it’s truly a choice.

It is well with my soul…selah

God is working all things together for my good. All things meaning the good, the bad and the ugly. He’s turning my mourning into dancing, my sorrow into joy. He’s giving me beauty for ashes, purpose for my pain. He’s making a way where there seemed to be no way. He’s opening doors that no man can shut and shutting doors that no man can open. He’s preparing a table before me in the presence of my enemies. My cup overflows…selah.

Behold He’s doing a new thing in me!

I’m so grateful. I’m so humbled by God’s goodness and faithfulness towards an unfaithful, inconsistent, and unholy person like myself. Truly, His grace is sufficient for us. In Jeremiah 29 verse 11 God says, “For I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.” The Amplified version says, “plans for peace and well-being”.

God wants us to be at peace and to be well. Well in every aspect of our lives. He wants us to prosper spiritually, relationally, mentally, emotionally, financially, physically, academically, vocationally…we are called to prosper! We were created to subdue the earth and have dominion over it. 

We were created to be fruitful and to multiply. We were created to love God and to love people. 😊

As I step into 32, I step into the future with confidence and a hope in the God that I serve. Greater things are yet to come. I leave the past behind me, and I look forward to sweet 32, the beginning of a whole new chapter!