This may be the biggest chapter of my life. As I turn the page and see chapter 30. I feel eager, intense excitement, and dread all at once. How is that even possible?
I’ve heard your 30s are supposed to be your best years, and I really hope that statement holds weight.
I spent my 20s in fight-or-flight mode, navigating so many changes—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Looking back, I honestly don’t know how I got here. But here I am.
Surrounded by these women, each with their own stories and their own chapters in my life. Some came into Chapter 16—my daughter. Some in 21. Some in 24. And one has been here since Chapter 1. It’s crazy to be standing here today with all of them, each sharing one thing in common. (ME)
Although today is my birthday, and I’m having some sort of crisis over no longer being in my 20s, I’m also incredibly grateful. Grateful that I made it out alive—and somehow, I made it out better.
Growth is something we don’t always recognize while we’re experiencing it. Sometimes it takes sitting alone with your thoughts to realize how much your mindset has changed, how your chemistry has shifted, how your boundaries have strengthened, and how differently you make choices now.
I’m beyond grateful that 30 doesn’t mean I’m starting over. It means – Im just beginning , but this time with experience.
God has been by my side through the good and the very bad, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Life has a way of convincing us that we’re late. That we should be further along. That we should have accomplished more by now. That we’re not where we thought we would be.
But maybe the truth is simpler than that:
We are exactly where we are meant to be.
Everything I thought would break me didn’t.
It built me.
So here’s to Chapter 30.
To everything I’ve survived.
To everything I’ve learned.
To everything I have yet to become.
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