Decades Apart

The new year to come is an extra special new year for milestone-lovers like this girl. A new decade.

I don't remember when 1979 slid into 1980, because I was still a toddler and most likely asleep when it happened.

I do remember 1989 transferring to 1990, but that's a story I'm saving for another day, because it's big.

And then, of course, there was 1999 into 2000. Of course I remember that one. I was a senior in college and spent that moment with my on-again-off-again boyfriend. We waved goodbye to the old year by eating boxed macaroni and cheese and putting together a puzzle. (I have no patience for puzzles, but he loved them.) We watched the ball drop at midnight and held our breath to see if the world would keep spinning on its axis, since we'd been warned the transfer of centuries might cause it to fall into oblivion.

When the lights stayed on and all devices appeared to continue working, we shrugged, said goodbye, and that was the rather anticlimactic start to a new decade and century.

Ironically it's the switch from 2009 to 2010 that I remember the least vividly, but thank goodness for blogging, right?

Maybe.

I looked it up, and indeed I did document it right here. Perhaps I've forgotten about this switch of decades because this was a difficult New Year's Eve for me. I was in so many seasons of transition, I wasn't sure where I belonged - or if I belonged at all.

So now we are here, on the brink of another decade change, and life is just so very different for me from all the decade changes I've ever known. It's different in beautiful ways, of course, and ways that I celebrate grandly.

But some things never change, and all the unknowns that I faced coming into this 2010-2019 decade are still here, but they wear different clothes. Also still here is my faithful God, who never changes and will provide as purposefully for me (for us) in the twenties as He did in the teens.

This past decade is something I'll probably blog about again between here and the end of the year, but it was on my mind today after one of my Facebook friends posted a photo of herself from 2009 and then one from 2019. It was interesting to see the ways she had changed (and the ways she hadn't), so I decided to play along, too!

This was the Bekah of late 2009, ready to see 2010 arrive. (She thought.)

And this is me now...excited to see what God has ahead!

You should do it, too! Look back to 2009 and see how life has changed in the decade we've just lived.