Birthdays are for Celebrating!

Birthdays I do not hate

Today's a day to celebrate!

Although I  need to calculate

Am I 67 or 68?

Can you relate?

I'll leave that for your debate.

I definitely qualify for the Senior's plate,

Although I'm far from eager to lie in a crate.

God will have to wait

To welcome me at the Heavenly gate.

Today I deliberate

All the goodness of my God

For which I do not rate.

He's given me a loving mate

Three children who turned out great

Eleven grands my heart is sate

Another on the way. I cannot wait!

Thankful my heart Jesus did penetrate

He arrived on time — He's never late.

Jesus has a plan for your life. It isn't fate.

He loves you, for He knows no hate.

He will lift those burdens from your plate.

If you ask Him today, you won't have to wait.

Thank you for helping me celebrate

My birthday number 68

If the Lord allows, it will be just fine

To celebrate birthday number 69.

May God splash serenity on your birthdays! Thank you for your love and prayers for me as we journey together through the splashes! I love you back!

Why I Love My Birthday

Why do I love birthdays? Wow! Birthdays are a celebration of another God-given year to live and love and serve and shine. Another year to enjoy and cuddle  grandchildren and love my man and eat birthday cake! I LOVE birthday cake! Birthdays are days not to diet. Birthdays are days to celebrate the beauty of being alive. Birthdays are fun!

Many of my friends died young.  Three with cancer in their 40's dared dream that they would live to celebrate their 50th birthday,  attend their children's weddings, and  hold their grandbabies. At their bedsides, I vowed silently that I would never grieve birthdays. I would celebrate them. In memory and in honor of  dear friends I loved whose lives ended in sickness, car crashes, and wars, I celebrate you and how your life touched mine.  Because of you, my life is richer and my birthdays are more fun. I remember you as I treasure each year God gives me to live. May I never waste precious time.

"Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time.

But no one seems to care or understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come.

For those who follow godly paths will rest in peace when they die."

Isaiah 57:1

Here is this year's silly birthday poem. I write because writing makes me happy and today is my Happy Birthday!

Oh, man alive!

How could I no longer be 65?

Am I really 66

When I still enjoy playing pick up stix?

Oh my, oh my, I'm in quite a fix.

I'm not sure I like being 66.

After all, I still order BABY cones at Lakeside Licks

So how can I be 66?

When setting goals, never in my top 10 picks

Was even the thought of being 66.

Still remember boys looking at me as one of the cute chicks!

No more — today I'm 66

For fun I made a cake from a mix

But, alas, there was no room for 66 wicks.

Can you even be 66

Without 66 wicks?

Enough of these silly tricks.

I thank God for blessing me times 66.

I smile and realize in another year if I'm not in Heaven

I'll reach that beautiful age of 67.

 Splashes of Serenity on me today! After all, it's my birthday and I thank God I am alive!