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To everything there is a season…Cherishing my 40th Birthday…

Hello World,

brideOne of my favorite passages in the Bible is Ecclesiastes 3 in which we are reminded that time is not arbitrary, there is a season for everything in God’s world…And now is my time to turn 40 years old…I thank God that He allowed me to reach this milestone in my life…I don’t like the idea of aging but such is life…aging is a blessing especially when you consider the alternative…

As I reflected about my life on my birthday (which was actually Sept. 7), I realized that some of my birthdays in years past were bittersweet…I was always grateful that God allowed me to live another year, but I was confused about why some of my oldest dreams had not come true…I remember when I wrote one of my most introspective posts “Hope. Wish.. Pray…” at the end of 2008, the year that I start my dear blog…Below is an excerpt…

For today, I have decided to hope, wish & pray that my dreams will come true…According to the Word, you are to “delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4 When I first read this verse years ago, I thought it meant that God will give you whatever you want if you serve Him. I know that’s not true now.

Now I believe that if you come to know the Lord in an intimate way, He will guide you to your true desires – that is He will give you the desires He has for you. He will guide you to your God-given destiny. So over the years, God has shown me what are my false desires and what are my true desires.(I no longer desire to date a man from every continent, ha,ha, for instance.)  Anyway, two dreams or two desires remain…at least for today. Well, that’s not true. I have more than two dreams, but I am thinking of two in particular…(What dreams do you think I am referring to? Guess?)

I had two dreams that I desperately longed for but did not reveal in that post…I wanted to DSC_2854meet and get married to the man God kept for me, and I wanted to be a published author…And it seemed for a long, long, long time, no matter what I did those two dreams eluded me…I literally chased them and every time I thought I was getting closer, all of a sudden it felt all of my chasing was for naught…But I now know that I was on time all along, it just wasn’t my season…And FINALLY, God saw fit to bless me with the right man, and He blessed me to become a published author…So this is a new season in my life…I don’t know what awaits me, and I’m still hoping, wishing and praying for the best…I’m thinking about new dreams too…

Happy Birthday to Me 🙂

Any thoughts?

P.S. Since I moving on up in age, I decided to post Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up.” This captures how I’m feeling….

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My Birthday is My Favorite Day (even if I’m getting older…)

Hello World!

I have thrived and survived on this earth another year, and I’m so thankful to God for sparing my life another year…Although I am a woman and getting older, I am practicing being proud of my age… (I’m 38.)So although I have been encouraged to start concealing my age, I don’t think I will do so…(still pondering because I am at least teensy bit vain…lol…)

Before I went to bed last night, I asked God to give me the thoughts that I should share here on my blog on my favorite day, my birthday 🙂 Before I do that, first of all, I want to thank my parents for hosting a lovely, impromptu birthday cookin (instead of cookout as it rained…) for me on Monday (Labor Day), and my family and friends for lavishing their love on me. I want to thank R. for taking me out last night! And I’m thankful that today I’m pampering myself with a day off of work:)

And so this morning, the song “My Favorite Things” from “The Sound of Music” keeps playing in my head…so today…since it is my birthday, I can be incredibly self-indulgent and share my favorite things…in no particular order…

  1. globetrotting to places I’ve read about but haven’t visited…cannot wait I until I visit South Africa, Hawaii & France…
  2. the aroma of the pages of a brand new book that I’ve been dying to read..(bet you can’t do this with a Kindle…)
  3. wearing my night scarf and thick glasses around R…
  4. nourishing myself with a good-for-me meal and being satisfied with what I’ve eaten and no more…
  5. losing myself in a really sappy, really mushy, really predictable romance movie…preferably wearing pajamas…
  6. laughing so hard that my tonsils show and I forget that I need braces…
  7. knowing in my soul that I’ve finally gotten something that God has been trying to teach me…
  8. the skirmishes of my three-year-old niece and my ten-year-old nephew…
  9. tasting the salt on my lips and feeling the collective breath of the crowd as I cross the finish line in the Peachtree Road Race…
  10. creating – whether I’m composing a blog post, making a collage or dreaming about the books and articles I will write someday…

I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad…about getting older…

What are your favorite things?

Any thoughts?

P.S. “My Favorite Things” by John Coltrane

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