Cheers!

Yesterday was my twenty-first birthday, yeah that's right, 21! Whoa! It was a great day. The weather was cold and gloomy, and I spent most of the day studying for my physics test that I had this morning, but in spite of all this I was in a great mood. I think a few things could have contributed to this. a) Listening to my Christmas station on Pandora, b) Striving to live with the intensity of Sophia Grace, c) Another movie to add to a growing list of things to see, d) A trip to Chill and Walmart with Emily, Lauren, and Nicole, or e) all of the above. For a true to life account of my last minutes as a twenty year old, we watched Mean Girls, and I was going to go to bed, but Lauren and Nicole encouraged me to live my last 17 minutes being 20 on the edge. So I stayed up, Nicole and I played Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia on my new ABBA dance game I got for my birthday, and then midnight hit, and I began the rest of my adult life. TO bring in my new year, I took a shot of coconut rum that I got from Sally and celebrated for a few more minutes before calling it a night. And that's all I got to say about that. Here's to all the people in my life that have given me the best experiences and memories, and to God for blessing me beyond measure these past 21 years and to many more!

Death Into Life

Today for our Ecology lab we had to go to a cemetery to record birth and death years for human life tables. Blah, blah, blah, science you probably don't care about. But anyway, just the thoughts that being in a graveyard can bring up are amazing to me. Death knows no bounds. We recorded a woman that died 100 years old, while we also recorded a baby that did not even live one day. Life is so precious and we sometimes take our existence for granted. We don't know when that last date will be recorded for our own lives, so we need to take what God has given us and make the most of it in the present. We shouldn't wait to do great things until tomorrow because we're not promised tomorrow. There was also an eerie feeling being that close to human remains, but the thing is, they're not there anymore. They're in eternity, in Heaven or Hell, and they know the vital importance of what it means to make the most of what God has given us. Each person was given exactly the amount of time that God intended and it's up to us to do with it what He intends. It was a sort of reality check for me and I'm glad that even in the midst of death, God shows us the way to everlasting life.

"He rescues them from the grave so they may enjoy the light of life." Job 33:30