"day one"

Today is the first day I have really been home, and I am different. A fifth of a century has passed before my eyes, yet I feel like the most powerful moments of it have been within this past year.

This year has been a whirlwind. I could not have believed someone if they told me where I would end up today. That I would have been to Charleston on a summer project, or dating Travis, or that I worked at McDonald's for a summer. Yeah, God has walked me through a lot. He has shown me things and taught me things and brought me to and around things. He has been there with me all the way. He has brought light and healing to areas of pain, and He has even been there through my fairly occasional stubbornness and total lack of His regard. But He loves me all the same. He has always loved me the same. I just happen to know Him better than last year, and am still learning from how He loves.

I'm not sure what God has in plan for my twentieth year, but I know it is going to (hopefully) go hand-in-hand with His awesome and glorious plan for me. I have an awesomely sweet devotional book my Mama got for me, Instagram/Blogger apps, and a vision for falling even more in love with Jesus this year. :)

-MacKenzie