Birthday Blessings

Hi Everyone!!

I had to create a post today for a few a reasons. Thank you so much to everyone who made my birthday weekend, yes weekend, amazing! (Having your birthday on a Sunday has it's advantages!) I am so grateful and thankful to God for the life that I have. I am just absolutely amazed beyond belief with the people he has blessed me with in my life. My family is absolutely amazing and I love them so much. I am so thankful for their examples of Christ being the foundations of their lives which helps and encourages me in my life. My friends, wow, absolutely incredible. I am so thankful to the Lord for the friends in my life. I am so amazed on the paths that bring me to them and without them I wouldn't be the person I am today. My weekend was incredible. From my girlfriends from my hometown who I have known since I was a little girl coming down on Friday night to begin celebrating to the SURPRISE party my friends threw me Saturday night to my family coming to my new church on Sunday morning and having lunch together, it was a perfect weekend. The kind words from everyone warms my soul and I am so thankful that the Lord puts people like you all on this Earth to love and encourage one another just for being born. Birthday's are special because we are all specially handmade by the Lord and we should celebrate Him and one another.

A Birthday Blessing

Here's a little story about what happened five years ago on my birthday and the presence of God in all of it. About a month before my birthday I was speaking with my mom about a family friend whose father passed away on her birthday. When talking about it I felt so sad for her. However, my Mom told me something that a priest said to her that made sense to me. He told her how special it was that her father went to heaven and met Jesus the same day that she was brought into the world. I thought that was a pretty amazing to look at it that way.

On my birthday five years ago I was taking a nap in the middle of the day. (How lucky was I!?) When I woke up I saw that there was a missed call from my Dad. I called him back and my Mom answered the phone. Right away I knew that something wasn't right. My Mom was supposed to be at work and she wasn't. She began to tell me that my Grandmother, her Mom just passed away. The first thing I said to my Mom was that I knew it. I just had this feeling that on that day, my birthday,  my Grandma would pass away. One of the last things she had mentioned was that she didn't get a chance to call me yet that today and wish me a Happy Birthday. Of course I was shocked, I was sad and upset, but I also understood how amazing God was and that He choose to have my Grandma meet Jesus on my birthday. That will connect me and her forever in such a special way.

It's pretty incredible that when we choose to let go and let God's plans for us to play out we can understand things that we never thought we could understand. Because of that conversation I had with my mom a few months earlier my birthday became something more than I could imagine. My Grandma went to Heaven that day, the feast they must be having up there, incredible.  I now go to church every year on my birthday, something I never did before she passed away.

It's amazing how God works in our lives when we let him. I am so blessed and so thankful for this life I have been given. Thank you to everyone!!!

"For we are God's masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus,
so we can do the good things
He planned for us long ago."
(Ephesians 2:10)