Turning twenty-one.
I could not have asked for a more wonderful way to turn 21. For all my life, God has never let me go, never forsaken me. Even when I was faithless, He has always been faithful. I received many amazing presents this year: a pair of wonderful navy Birkenstocks, a film camera (and just an hour before I received this I was gushing about how much I love film pictures… truly a divine gift), a big bottle of my favourite scent, a bottle of a scent I said I liked on a friend, a wooden box of tea flown all the way from Australia, a ukelele, a watch, a terrarium, many cards and letters and notes, dinners and cakes and lovely treats.
But more important than these very marvelous gifts, I am so indescribably thankful for the givers of these gifts. The love and friendship that I have been given the other 364 days of every year… I am speechless with thankfulness.
And then I look heavenward and I remember the Giver of the givers of the gifts. The Giver of everything good and beautiful in my life. The Giver of my life and the lives of everyone I love around me… The Giver of love - love, because He gave the ultimate gift: Himself.
Now I resolve, for the 21st year of my life and the first year of legal adulthood, to live my life truly surrendered and wholly abandoned to Him. To trust and obey, to live according to His will - and His will only. To let my life, 21 years of age and the many years to come, magnify and glorify Jesus.