Ok...this post isn't really Charlie-based, but I had to share my "a-ha moment" from last night. As I was washing my hands, I looked in the mirror and had a vivid flashback to one morning when I was about 11 or 12 years old.
I was in my Heather Blue (still my favorite bedroom color ever) bedroom, lolling about in my twin bed on my fabulous pink and white pin-dot striped Laura Ashley sheets. Having been your typical pre-teen, I was mopey and grouchy. I remember laying there wishing that just about everything about me was different. I wished that I had unpermed, bangless hair, didn't need glasses, was 20 pounds thinner, had clear skin and was in love.
Flash forward 20+ years and...
- I have straight, bangless hair (though "uncurly" might be a more accurate term in Lowcountry humidity)
- I am still giddy about 8 years of 20/10 vision thanks to Lasik surgery
- I am about 10 pounds thinner, but at 20 years older, I'm perfectly satisfied with that
- Pimples are few and far between
- I am head over heels in love with my husband and my perfect baby boy
For a couple seconds I was in complete awe. Every wish I had made that morning so long ago had come true -- even the vane, superficial ones... The realization made me smile and I immediately noticed that while all of the physical wishes of my pre-teen self have come true, I now have wrinkles. Hah!
So while I started down the path of thinking that all of our dreams do come true given enough patience, time, prayer, etc, blah-blah-blah...what I really realized is that God has a terrific sense of humor to go along with His perfect plan. Maybe that and the fulfillment of that last wish are what keep 33 year old Jenny from dwelling on the wrinkles the way 13 year old Jenny did on everything else. I can only imagine what I'm going to see in the mirror in another 20 years!
