Today is my birthday. At this point in life birthdays and holidays tend to make me pause and take inventory of time, life and where I am. This is one of those birthdays that makes me take inventory of what has happened in significant time increments. Over the last ten years I have lost my grandfather, my father and my grandmother. I have been blessed with another child and watched my other children become teenagers. I have left one job, been forced out of another, found new employment (twice), and started a company. I have encountered personal success and tremendous failure. I have not always behaved in a manner that I would want others to know about and I have inspired hundreds with my writing, words, actions and work. I have climbed and I have fallen. I have both grown and retreated. I have soared on the wings of faith and hope and also crashed into the valley of despair and doubt. I am more aware of my weaknesses and sometimes I am less sure of my strengths that I was a decade ago. I worry about different things in life than I did years ago. In many ways I am less hopeful than I used to be but still I have hopes for better days tomorrow than yesterday. I am not the MONSTER some have made me out to be, nor am I the MAN I want to be. What I am however is human. I am a different me than I was on my birthday 10 years ago. I suspect ten years from now I will again be different than I am today. I am growing... I am alive... I am trying... I am learning... I am thankful... I am learning to truly be grateful... Today I celebrate the life I have. Tomorrow wont be my birthday but I will try to remember how I felt today just so I can continue to grow.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:13:06 +0000
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