I’m 22 and I don’t feel any older. Wiser, maybe. Or maybe it will hit me when I wake up tomorrow.

Anyway it’s not official till 2pm, and by then I expect to be watching Toy Story in a GV cinema. So, no deep ruminations about life and living.

I’m happy my birthday falls on a Sunday. It’s a season of my life where God is speaking to me. In the past year He’s shown me the emptiness and fragility of my faith. He’s sent people to keep me accountable, books to hammer home His truth, and made me think about my salvation in a different way. I think I know better what it means to acknowledge God but not Know Him, what it means to Fear Him, what it might mean to Love Him. And I thank Him for pulling me out of the darkness, when I felt so lost and distant. Now I know that He heard my prayers.

I’ve learned more about myself this past year than I have before. There are things you do for others and then there are things you do for yourself. There is selflessness, but then there is prioritization.

So I have limits, and strengths and weaknesses, which I know now better than I have before. I’ve learned what I can do. And impressed myself. And also what I can’t do, and the mistakes I’ve made, and to deal with the disappointment.

The nice thing about having a July birthday is that it always falls neatly between academic years. Now we have to call ourselves M4s and again, people expect more. But that’s ok. It’s not frightening like it was last year.

So, about priorities. MIND – to STOP PROCRASTINATING and STUDY so that I will be not just safe but COMPETENT. BODY – to continue RUNNING so that I will increase my CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH and hence WALK THE TALK. SPIRIT – to be a good testimony in SCHOOL, in CHURCH, in CRUSADE. To be first a child of God.

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