I'll be turning 27 in a few weeks. I haven't gotten anywhere in life and I feel like it's too late to do anything now. I feel like if I didn't get married to a successful man, have kids, get a 50k a year job, and get a sizeable savings, travel all by my current age then it's pointless to try. I feel too old for everything now. I would always see blonde sorority type girls get married at 22 in college. I just feel like I was born to just exist and nothing else. The highlight of my day was crying in the bathroom of my retail pharmacy job I can't stand and wonder why my whole life is a waste.
A Christian's life is
never a waste. Read your Bible and you will see all kinds if possibilities to bless others!
As a child I often prayed a prayer written by Matilda Betham-Edwards:
1 God make my life a little light
Within the world to glow;
A little flame that burneth bright,
Wherever I may go.
2 God make my life a little flower
That giveth joy to all,
Content to bloom in native bower,
Although the place be small.
3 God make my life a little song
That comforteth the sad,
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad.
4 God make my life a little staff
Whereon the weak my rest,
That so what health and strength I have
May serve my neighbors best.
5 God make my life a little hymn
Of tenderness and praise,
Of faith, that never waxeth dim,
In all His wondrous ways.
Amen.
Betham-Edwards was the fourth daughter of a farmer, Edward Edwards (c.1808–1864) and his wife Barbara (1806–1848), daughter of William Betham (1749–1839), an antiquary and cleric. She was educated in Ipswich and as a governess-pupil at a school in London.
[1]
Her biography is here:
Matilda Betham-Edwards - Wikipedia
I bought the prayer book at a dime store with my $1 a month allowance. My parents weren't Christians, but God had other plans for me.