Growing Joys

It's official.  I'm growing up.

Here are just a few things to prove it:

• I got my first "+1" invitation.
• I got hired for my first full-time job, benefits and all
• I start paying rent (sort of)
• I now shop office-appropriate, rather than "cute".
• I am going to peers' weddings and helping them plan them, rather than just going to the weddings of mentors and gege/jiejies.

I'm 25, but I don't feel like I'm an adult.  I feel like a college kid pretending to be an adult, minus the classes and procrastination.  It's rather exciting.  I feel I have waited the last three years to reach this point, and now I'm here.  My next chapter is starting, it's called adulthood, and I'm not afraid.

I'm glad that I also grew up spiritually.  That I'm not relying on others to prop up my faith.  That I keep up with disciplines without others mentioning it to me, yet learn to build deeper communities and be accountable to my brothers and sisters.  That I'm expanding to new territories and uncharted seas of relating to Him.  I can be confident in who I am, who He is, and what He's doing in my life.  I have real and tangible experiences of His power and grace in my life, and I've learned to incorporate Him more seamlessly into my conversations--natural because He's already such a big part of my life.

It's exciting, growing up. 

"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ."