I feel like so many of my posts have to do with time and how I spend it and how I should spend it. But it seems to be working so why change it?

The good news is: TOMORROW (Oct. 30) IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!

I’m so excited. I love birthdays. And mine is absolutely on the best day ever. The weather is great, temperature wise, and the very next day I get to eat a ton of candy and no one can say anything.

So I’ll be 20 years old. That’s two decades (hence the title). And that seems like such a long time. Two decades. But I still feel so young. How could 20 years have gone by so quickly? It doesn’t logically make any sense. And as I sit writing this post, excited about tomorrow, there’s a bitter hint mixed in with this sweetness.

I’ll officially be done with my teenage years in just a few short hours. Did I spend my time as a teenager wisely? Was Jesus’ love for me evident in the way I talked and acted towards others? These past 7 years I’ve had the best position to talk to other teenagers about Jesus and His love for me and for everyone else. Did I take advantage of that enough?

Even if I can consider my teenage years as fruitful, they’re done. And the question I now need to ask myself is “What next?” I’m entering into a new decade and a new age. So how will I spend the next period of my life?

Overall, I am so thankful to God that He’s given me these 19 years of life. And I’m looking forward to spending my 20’s as one of His “good and faithful servants.”

Hannah Muñoz, the 20-year-old Rope contributor