Looking back and Pressing On

– 28 years ago, I was a little baby.
– 20 years ago, if it hasn’t happened yet, I’m about to get bit in the face by my dog while my dad is out of town. This is my first memory of going to the hospital ER, not sure if I had to go before that. I’m in third grade and I have to wear a patch over my eye like a pirate.
– 10 years ago, I was beginning my senior year and very ready to get out of town. I’m about to find out I’m accepted to A&M.
– 5 years ago, I had just survived my first summer in Phoenix with my hubby and kitty. We both have good jobs, my first ‘real’ 40 hour week type of job. We bought our first house and are trying to get along with our neighbors. Thinking about getting a dog.
– 1 year ago, I was more than ready to pop my second baby out though he would wait another month and a half to come to visit.
– Today, I have a Bachelor’s degree, and have been “out in the workforce” for 5 years. I’ve been married for 7 years, have a beautiful 2 1/2 yo girl and a strapping 10 mo boy. We have a rental house and our current house. I work part time and I spend most of the rest of my time with my kids teaching them and training them.

Am I where I wanted to be in life by the time I was 28? I feel a little bit like King Solomon must have when he wrote Ecclesiastes. All these things are materialistic. What about have I accomplished the things God wanted me to? What have I done for/with God?

Phillipians 3:7 – “But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

I hope in another 30 years I can look back and say I have been living the life God wanted me to. We shall see.