I guess you already know there’s always a complementary birthday blog.
Hope alive beyond today
57, that is like three lives of 19, a
number or a milestone, but either way, it is a celebration that I am grateful
to memorialise and journal, for of many that I know, I have been the most
fortunate and blessed to have the stories I get to tell.
Indeed, I would have loved to
celebrate today in the company and the arms of my partner Brian in the warmth
of the summer of the southern hemisphere, but the best laid-out plans can so
easily be disrupted, the present disappointment prepares us for greater adventurous
prospects of fun and more beyond what we might ever desire, it is not a train
smash, he would say.
Life-affirming faith and love
Besides, it has been an interesting
year, tough at times and exciting at other times, but that is the stuff of
life. When I think about my circumstances 13 years ago, I could not have
imagined and I could not see as far as today as everything was just so
absolutely dire, yet the intervening years have brought a storied existence of
life reinvented, happiness reconsidered, joy reverberating, and love
rejuvenating, I am highly favoured.
Friends and family have been an unerring
source of support and providence, I have been lifted and kept aloft with
kindness, goodness, generosity, and love. I sometimes pinch myself, all this
for me? At 57, I am grateful to God and the providence that took that little
child that needed an incubator rather than a manger that Tuesday morning into a
journey of the life celebrated today.
Unspeakable gratitude with thanks
I am full of thanks for the encounters
brief and longstanding that have given me meaning and reason to strive to be a
better person in every way possible. I can imagine maybe things that could have
been, but I am encouraged that this is the best existence, it has the best stories
and the wildest adventures, along with the goodness and mercy that follows me every
day.
Having decided it will be quiet and
without drama, I will still make it a day to remember, every birthday is a day
to reflect, celebrate, and appreciate the wondrous grace of the divine
that showers blessings in abundance over me.
We live not just to survive, but to
thrive, we speak not just to be heard, but to be impactful, we love not just
for companionship but to be examples of assuring togetherness, we write our stories to
contribute our small part to the concept of humanity, and that is my resolve
daily for as long as I have breath. To my 57th birthday and the hope
for many more to celebrate. Thank you.
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