On December 23rd, I’ll be 23. That means it’s my GOLDEN birthday. I’m having a hard time with it. I don’t feel I have contributed anything to the world. Or I guess that I am I thinking, this is my only golden birthday, and what do I have to show for my 23 years? not much if you ask me….Is this anything similar to a crisis of faith? I’m not bummed about my age…I am just bummed about the length of time which I have been alive, and not contributing anything to the world….
If they were me and if I were you, wouldn’t you have liked a present too?
Happy birthday, happy birthday…
so I’m having a hard time getting into birthday mode…
please tell encourage me…
I am excited about your birthday. And I have a present for you, but you sadly, you won’t get it until you visit my house. Which I can’t wait for!
Well, for not having accomplished anything, you and your husband somehow managed to do a musical video that is rapidly spreading through the Christian blogosphere. That’s not too bad!
Second, you are still seven years shy of when Jesus began his ministry. And from His birth to His ministry, we only know of one thing he accomplished. He asked some questions of some temple scholars when he was 12 after he had left his parents unannounced. So, you have tied him. He did one famous thing between birth and 30 and you have done one famous thing and you are not 30 yet. That’s not too bad!
Third, uhm, I guess I am going to sound like an old fart, but you are the age of our youngest daughter, so it is a little hard for me to see you as somehow being past your prime just yet.
A golden birthday? I have never heard of that before. But I’m glad I have since 2009 will be mine. I’m 25 on the 25th of June.
And about all this “i haven’t contributed anything to the world” business. That’s poppycock. I remember several awesome conversations with you that rocked. I’m apart of the world, and that was cool for me. Also, you’re a freakin’ youth minister’s wife. We offer a lot to this world: we’re helping to nuture the youths of this world. That’s huge, really.
I love what Fr. Ernesto Obregón had to say and I concur 100%. I don’t know of this video, but it sounds great for one. I also take comfort being 23 and not yet having accomplished everything I will, because of what he said about Jesus not beginning ministry until age 30. Obviously it’s not that anybody is better than Jesus, but just as he said that we will do greater things than he did, we are in our 20s and already deeply impacting the lives of teenagers. Naturally he didn’t begin until 30 in order to fulfill certain ettitquette and be respected, but through Him and Him through us, we are already serving the world. It’s easy to be discouraged by doing the activity and not yet seeing the results, let alone seeing momentum pick up, ie. when the youth we minister to mature and minister to others, but don’t underestimate what is already happening. They will look back and thank God from Brandon and Leah.