Happy Birthday!

To all of you out there with a Birthday today! 

Happy Birthday! 

We share the same birth-date! 

Good day to be born! 

Good day to be alive! 

Praising God for yet another year of life! 

I'm 52 today. 

I thought I was 53 until I showed my husband my Facebook post and he said, 

"Cute, but you are only 52" 

A friend said, "That's a good sign, 

it means your having to much fun to know or care how old you are".

That is one way to look at it :) 

Life has been good. 

I have clocked 62 miles walking in the last 2 months! 

I only lost 10 lbs (but I need to watch my eating better) 

So, I move on. Kick it up a notch

Eat better, watch more of what I'm putting in my mouth

Walk one more mile a day

and in time, I'll get there! 

I have a wonderful husband. 

A great kid (who finally found a job!!) 

Praising God for that. 

My son needs work that is not customer service related. 

Something where he can get a check sheet of "to do" and just ...do it

Something that he doesn't have anyone watching over his shoulder

Something that makes him feel at the end of the day, "I finished that." 

I have been praying for 14 months since his last job

 that God provide just this type of work for him. 

And last week, he was hired as a temp at a place that provides just this type of work!! 

God is so good. 

When my son said, "The good thing about this job is, 

I can work at my pace, check off my sheet and no one is watching over my shoulder." 

He had no idea that is EXACTLY what I have been praying for!! 

But God did! 

And he heard that prayer!

14 months is a long time to wait.
And it is only a temp job. 

However, I am hopeful that if this is what God wants

He will keep my son at this place. 

I have great faith that the Lord provides what is needed in this life. 

That includes jobs. 

It also includes life.

Everything about it.
God provides. 

James 1:17 

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, 

coming down from the Father of lights 

with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

When people would say to my Beloved Brother in law

 who is no longer with us here on earth, 

 "Good to see you Ron"

He would say, "It's good to Be seen!" 

There is so much truth to that!! 

It IS good to be seen. 

Not just on another Birthday, 

but in life. 

On the job.
In school. 

In relationships. 

Everywhere we go, we want to be seen, 

and live another Birthday. 

I can't think of a better time to say Thank you. 

Thank you to the 42 people who read my blog this month. 

If the stats page is right, I had 40 people in the US read my blog

1 in Poland and 1 in Africa! 

WOW! 

That amazes me that this little blog

written from my kitchen table can reach that far and to that many! 

It's a God thing for sure! 

Thank you to each and every person who knows me personally

and touches my life in a positive way. 

Thank you for being there. 

Sharing. Caring. Loving. 

So, today, be it your Birthday or not

Be grateful for another day! 

Be happy that you are where you are in life. 

Even if your circumstances aren't perfect, 

Maybe its been 14 months since that last job. 

Maybe you lost someone dear to you that you love and it hurts. 

Maybe you just aren't sure that God is there, listening.....

I assure you, HE Is!!! 

John 5:14-15

And this is the confidence that we have toward him,

 that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, 

we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

The key, 

To ask God HIS WILL, Not Ours

Hard to do, but, trust Him! 

And be grateful each day to be seen another day!