Okay so I am finally here. I am 29. My last year of being able to legitemately say that I am in my twenties. Ow that I think about it, being here is not all that different than being 28, or to be hinest, 27. I am still the same person that I was before. Maybe it is true, what I have always believed, maybe age doesn't really matter. Instead, maybe what is important is what you are doingwith your time. You can be wasting your time at any age, or you can really be doing something of significance with your life at any age. Why does this culture delight in making people feel old? Today I am going to try and have a new look on life. I am going to remmeber that God loves me, no matter my age. My family loves me and my friends love me, and to be honest, if my being 29 makes you shudder at the day when it will be you, :) Get over yourself!

I am going to be 29 in three days and it scares me to think about it. I'm sure when I was younger I never expected to not be married and have a family or even have a career by this time in my life. In so many ways though, I can't imagine my life being any different than it is right now. Life is a collection of stories and experiences (both bad and good) that make us who we are. I thank God for the expreiences that I have had so far, many of which I never would have been able to participate in had I been married.
So what is it about being 29 that scares me so much? It is still relatively young. I mean it's not as if we live in a place where the average age of death is 40. I am not becoming less of a person because I am a year older. In fact, I don't feel like I am going to be 29, instead feeling more like I should be turning 25. In a previous post, I wrote about trying to be content where I am, and I think that is a daily prayer of mine. So I guess, turning 29 does not signify the end of the world. :o)

So today I was reading about the Pope and all the disturbance that has been caused by his statements. I want to know when it became okay for Muslims to get upset when someone says something against their Prophet when they say stuff about Christians all the time. You don't see Christians around the world rioting because Radical Muslims call for the MURDER of Christians all over the world. What is wrong with this picture. I could understand the rioting over the Muhammad cartoons, but this is ridiculous. Has it gotten to a point where we cannot say anything against someone we disagree with.

Okay so this is the part I added later. I try to remember that these people who are rioting also need to know the love of Jesus. So what should we do? How do we love a people, some more than others, who would like to see us dead? I don't know how to reconcile this in my mind. I don't feel like it is right for us to be held hostage by fear that we might say something wrong and provoke a terrorist attack.

Ah yes, it is that time of year again. Alabama Football season is here and cab I say how excited I am. I love college football in general, but I truly love watching Alabama football. The knots and twists I get in my stomach every time they come on the field, are they going to screw up or play well. It is a never ending source of stress, and yet, I can't not watch it. I have cheered at games, I have laughed at games, I have sat in stunned or dismayed silence at games, and I have even cried (yes with real tears) at games. I bleed crimson, and I will always be the first one to come to the defense of my team, win or lose! So I say it now, ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!

So today I feel like using my blog for complaining. Last week I went to the rec center at the seminary and saw an announcement for a "Non-Married Student" game night. This frustrated me. We are called SINGLES. It was like we were being downgraded to second class citizens or something. I wanted to walk right up to the front desk and ask what it was all about. I wanted to ask if there would later be a "Non-Single Student" game night.
I mean it is not as if I love being single. I want to be in a relationship and be married, but God is sovereign and until the point where He chooses to change my single status, I am commanded to find joy in it. I am striving to be able to follow Paul's example about being content in all situations. So anyways, I just wanted other single people out there to know that we are not just to think of ourselves as "non-married", but we are children of God, loved by him, no less than if we were married and producing children.