It is quite interesting to notice how Birthday's affect people! When the little ones have their first birthday, everyone gets excited and takes multiple pictures as they dig their little hand (or hands) into their birthday cake and then smear it all over their face! By the time they turn 12, they are no longer a little child. They are almost a teen-ager and very eager to hurry to Birthday #16 when they can get that coveted piece of paper called a Drivers License!
But after they obtain their Drivers License, they want to hurry on to Birthday #21 when they will become an "adult", ready to spread their wings and fly! But suddenly, they come to a screeching halt -- it doesn't seem possible, but it is true -- there are 30 candles on the cake!! We've got to turn back the clock, but time waits for no man. So we catch our breath and find we are at 40 (the age most women seem to dread), and even though many quit telling their age, there soon will be tell-tale signs that we have passed 50, 60, and even 70 as we try to avoid coming face to face with reality.
I think a Birthday is a wonderful time to look back over the previous year -- have we made every circumstance a stepping stone to draw us closer to God or have we let it become a stumbling block to pull us downward? As we celebrate our Birthdays this year, let us remember that we have:
"Only one life, 'twill soon be past;
Only what's done for Christ will last."
And, by the way -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Randy!! Thank you for being a wonderful son!!
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