Today is my birthday! Happy birthday to me! Today is my birthday! Happy birthday to me!
Another year of my life has passed and as I look back at all the birthday musings I had written the past couple of years it seems like I have the same sentiments each year.
It's not so much the age (okay to be completely honest yes the number matters gasp!) and growing old per se that scares me. More that growing a year older, it’s the process of looking back at the years that passed and discovering I have not done, accomplished, changed for the better and gotten wiser as much as I should have is what scares the crap out of me.
A colleague summed it up in not so many words when I asked him yesterday if he feels happy and in the mood to celebrate his birthday - that is to give us a treat har har!!! his answered me back with something to really ponder upon, he said "why should I be happy? when I have lost another year?"
True, I have lost another year but I guess I have gained much more in return. This year a feel somewhat different.
I gained a new perspective in life; I am learning to appreciate everything even more, to count my blessing and give thanks.
I have forged new bonds of friendship, mended the broken and revived the old.
I have a new source and sense of positivity that keeps me sane and calm during the days when all you want to do is burst from all of life's pressures.
I am in the process of slowly building and strengthening my Faith and little by little am starting to give back all the glory and honor to God thru service in the community. Steadily and surely God's hand is carefully guiding me.
A colleague summed it up in not so many words when I asked him yesterday if he feels happy and in the mood to celebrate his birthday - that is to give us a treat har har!!! his answered me back with something to really ponder upon, he said "why should I be happy? when I have lost another year?"
True, I have lost another year but I guess I have gained much more in return. This year a feel somewhat different.
I gained a new perspective in life; I am learning to appreciate everything even more, to count my blessing and give thanks.
I have forged new bonds of friendship, mended the broken and revived the old.
I have a new source and sense of positivity that keeps me sane and calm during the days when all you want to do is burst from all of life's pressures.
I am in the process of slowly building and strengthening my Faith and little by little am starting to give back all the glory and honor to God thru service in the community. Steadily and surely God's hand is carefully guiding me.
Your Guiding Hand
I walk thru life just thinking
You are at the sidelines just watching
I live everyday believing
Everything happens only by my own doing
When I feel pain, shed tears and cry
I fail to see the reason and just ask “why?”
When I revel in the joys that life brings
I often forget to thank you for all your blessings
Your hand in my life I fail to see
Believing less in you and more in me
They say ‘we make our own fate’ you see
What I fail to realize is you silently guiding me
Yet you waited for me patiently
With open arms you welcomed me
Slowly opening my heart and eyes to see
That everything is because of you and not me
If I remember correctly, it was also February of last year that I was invited to join the SFC CLP and now that I think about it, it was God's perfect gift and I am thankful.
So ‘THANK YOU’ to each and everyone who sent their greetings and warm wishes! everyone of you is part of who I am and hopefully what I am is someone you can all be proud of knowing.
So ‘THANK YOU’ to each and everyone who sent their greetings and warm wishes! everyone of you is part of who I am and hopefully what I am is someone you can all be proud of knowing.
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