I’m in my 40th year! I don’t care who knows it. Remember in Sunday School when you learned that when Joseph Smith wrote that he was in his fifteenth year, it really meant he was only 14? Let’s be clear: my 40th birthday is next year. I am 39.
Here are some things that happened in my 39th year… when I was 38… are you following me?
T his year I learned
H ow to make a quilt and
I learned that I could play the fiddle on stage while balancing on a block high in the air. I
R ead several books of religious philosophy. I
T aught the Mia Maids in Young Women, and didn’t get heat stroke at
Y outh Conference! My
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N eighbors had quadruplets and they let me come help,
I wrote my grandmother’s history and
N ervously watched my children leave for school each morning. I spent many
E venings driving to piano, ballet, baseball, and youth activities.
I’m most happy about the violin performances and writing. I’m not sure what big projects I will do in the upcoming year.
Most of the things from last year that I am proud of were unexpected opportunities. I just went with my whims or said yes when someone asked me to do something. Is this how it works for you?
Why is it that only a few of my well-planned goals brought me the same joy as the unexpected opportunities? It’s certainly not because I love spontaneity. Perhaps it’s because God had bigger plans for me than I had for myself.