Twenties.

Your twenties feel like a pivotal point. In your teenage years, you’re still collecting all of the pieces that will form who you are. However, your twenties is the decade the puzzle pieces come together. The decade you typically start your career, buy a house, and get married. 

When I turned twenty in March, I was honestly terrified. Instead of having my life together, I found myself feeling more lost than ever before. I didn’t know if I chose the right major, let alone what career path I would take. I was surrounded by  great community, yet battling loneliness. My head was filled with confusion rather than clarity. 

Now, I’m almost twenty and a half. The pieces of my puzzle are in fact still scattered, and I don’t know when or how it will be complete.

However, instead of striving to piece together our own story, cramming puzzle pieces where they do not fit, maybe our twenties are for surrendering control. Maybe the pieces will come together through the confusion, the loneliness, the mistakes and the chaos. 

And maybe that’s the beauty of our twenties. The fact that we don’t know what the picture of our puzzle will look like yet, but it will be more beautiful than we can imagine. Not because we pieced it together through our own effort or strength, but because the Creator has the perfect design, and will complete our puzzle in His perfect time. 

-AKT