twenty.

Yesterday was my 20th birthday.

And there were so many firsts...

I woke up at 6AM and went to bed well after midnight, just to make the most of it.

I went to two of my favorite shopping places. And didn't shop.

I ate more food than I have eaten in the last week, complete with 2 free desserts.

I received my favorite flowers. For the first time. No one else has ever thought to ask.

I was sung to, in that embarrassing way, for the first time in a restaurant.

I didn't plan very much, but it ended up being for the best.

For the first time, I felt older on my birthday.

I was thinking, I'm pretty much 1/4 of the way done with my life.

And that scares me.

I need to start making more of a difference, living with more purpose.

I feel like God gave me this verse::

"We will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ"--Ephesians 4:14

Some of my biggest, more regretted mistakes were made as a result of believing lies.

I will not be influenced by them any longer.

I will speak the truth and the words God gives me.

I desire to grow to be more and more like Christ.