Mel sent me a sweet note yesterday.
It said, "Happy Happy Birthday! I'm so grateful you were born and then that I get to know you! I'm sorry I'm so slow - it's only your birthday in New England for 11 more minutes so I have to act fast. I love you so much and wish you your happiest year yet."
It said, "Happy Happy Birthday! I'm so grateful you were born and then that I get to know you! I'm sorry I'm so slow - it's only your birthday in New England for 11 more minutes so I have to act fast. I love you so much and wish you your happiest year yet."
It made me tear up this morning....as that's precisely how I see it....my gratitude is in that I am here. I had another birthday (and after the last one, that's something!) and I have had this time on earth away from my Father in Heaven with such blessings! I too am so so grateful to have met so many of YOU....(meeting you, again, every time we sit here awhile together on this page) and am so blessed again and again by you. It's not just that God gave us life, or this earth...He gave us each other, too. Birthdays are special to me, because they are the representation of the day we left our heavenly estate to travel to earth for these trials and these experiences--these chances to prove our hearts and our desires and our loves and to ACT in ways to show HIM we want to come back HOME when our time here is up. Birthdays represent love from Heaven--so sure am I that we received it before we left our spiritual life--before we were born....and someone...perhaps and angel having told us, "We love you. And we'll be right here waiting for you when you come back." It makes me cry to think of that departure--how sweet it would have been...gentle, and loving and full of promise--exciting and full of our gratitude for our time to be able to experience all we had surely heard so much about....and to truly be able to feel the gratitude I have for God, for my life and for these years and these hands to put them together in a way we will both be happy about.
May we all be thankful to be alive...to have had our births and to honor our birthdays....the BEST gift we were given....the one from God! Thank you: R,D,J,J,G,A,M,G,D,M,S,L,C,A,J,K,J,T,N....for reminding me of what I have here on earth for me....and Joe for reminding me what I can have when I come home.
love you all!
(Happy Birthday Kens! This one is for YOU!)
Oh and Mel? I have a happy feeling....this might just be a GREAT year after-all!
4 comments:
glad to see your b day was somthing to remember, and that you are greatfull for life and each and every day.
dani me and my brother have been having a falling out , i just dont aprove of some of the things he is doing , and he says "why cant you just love me and support me" i tell him i do love him and allways will(hence why i worry about him cause i love him) but that i can not and will not support what he is chossing to do, i worry about what effects it will have on his spirital groth and more inportently what it will be the effects his children will go throw in spirital things .
with all this said it has left me to ponder some of the things i have gone throw in life , people i have meet , and i have thought of you often. dani i want to lift my voice to all those i love and care about , tell you how much i you and all that you mean to me, and i also want to say i feel we need to always be doing whats right cause we dont know how short life will be (alma 34:32-35) i feel we need to listen to the prophets in our day (D&C 1: 38) i know with all my soul that if we repent and try and do our best and keep repenting living up to all the commandment and covenents we have learned and recived we will live with god (moroni 7:48)
Oh it surely will be a sweet year for you. You returned the tear to me as I read your post in the (rare) quiet moments as my little ones slept. Birth truly is a sacred experience and what a privilege it has been for me (and you!) to be the one to welcome our Heavenly Father's little ones into this earthly estate. Man alive, life is sweet.
adrienne you have a blog? i never knew you should post it looks like its been a while
well, i think all who know you and all who don't are grateful you were born! you bring soooo much sunshine to everyone you come in contact w/! your smile is killer! ;) thanks for the birthday wish! am i slow? when did you post this? lol! at any rate, i love you tons!!!
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