As I sit here this overcast morning, on the day some 58 years ago, at 7:32 in the morning my mom overcame the pain, agony and suffering and was used by God to bring me into this world, I am lost in thoughts of how to more effectively bring the love of God to a world that has lost hope. I happen to know the exact time I was born because every year until she went home to be with The Lord 11 years ago she would call me at 7:32am every birthday. And so I sit, not having had that phone call for over a decade now. But as of the last several years I wake up every morning to another voice, not my mom, but my Dad, not my biological dad for he too has gone home to dance the polka with my mom, entertaining the Savior with their fancy footwork. But each morning Abba Father, my dad, my God says to me Happy Birthday, for each day I open my eyes is the birth of a new journey, a new story, a new challenge, a new life. When you go into each day with the knowledge it is new, fresh, different than all the days before, and all that will come, you are born again each morning for the life that is the essence of that day. When you have hope, vision, purpose and that incredible life of faith, everyday a new story is written by your actions, words and encounters. For every day is a day that The Lord has made, and as we say I will rejoice and be glad in it. It is like the old animated Christmas show Frosty The Snowman. When Christmas snow came and that snowman was made, once they put the magic hat on his head, what were the first words he spoke.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY. and every time the hat blew off, as soon as they place it back on his head again he said...HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Every time he came to life it was a new birthday. Its funny, when we are Jesus people, its like we are made up of CHRISTMAS SNOW or maybe CHRISTMAS FLESH, well, you know what Im saying. When you look at your life that way, every morning you wake up and its new, fresh, different, challenging, compelling, and enter it with the belief that I am born again this day for this day, life has hope, purpose, reason, and most important, life. Most folks have no life in their life. But when you have the spirit of. God in you through faith in his Son you have true life, and life more abundant. So this morning as I put my new hat on ( BFC 777 Crew hat - birthday gift), I will say to myself.....HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And I will say it every morning till I get to do the polka with Mom when I get to my real home. I HOPE you get it. HOPE that is. God Bless, Ride Safe and God Bless America.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:03:55 +0000
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