Happy Birthday to me!
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i was greeted yesterday with cinnamon rolls and streamers. chocolate cake and good coffee.
and then unwrapped sweet presents from my wonderful family.
My favorite four-year-old gave me a specially built lego truck.
just for me.
and a space ship.
complete with an astronaut.
{it just might have been my favorite gift.}
And Matt and I were so privileged to go to a dinner banquet...
where I got to where real, non-running-shorts-for-clothes
...that included lots of good food, special conversations, and inspiring speeches.
including one honoring Howard G. Hendricks,
a professor Matt had at Dallas Theological Seminary.
I was brought to tears by this special man's 60+ year ministry.
and as I sat in the banquet hall on my birthday,
I was struck by Howard Hendricks' life and legacy.
If I could flash-forward to my 40th birthday...60th birthday...
90th birthday...
what would a 5-minute-video summarizing my life include?
hopefully that I ate lots of chocolate cake.
{calories can stop counting at 90, right?}
and
had loved really, really well.
and taught these sweet ones to love their sweet ones really well, too.
31.
i think it's going to be a good year.
