Birthday Times 2017-62
Birthday’s come but once a year, then they are over to await next year where once, again, they are celebrated. Quite a bit might have happened in the past year and much to anticipate in the next.
Some of the past memories we may want to forget, yet the future experiences, we look forward to with anticipation. I would imagine the far majority of the days in between the birthdays are or could be just Ho Hum, with nothing to remember or write about.
We just celebrated Christmas. We got revved up about the 25th of December with the anticipation of its coming, we experienced the actual day
THEN —- BOOM!!!!! It was over!!!!!
Is it, the day after, on the 26th ,a letdown, basically???? I used to feel it was somewhat of a letdown with the absence of Christmas music, the shopping for things, the get togethers of family, etc. I even had or still do, in the attic, a mirror with Scrooge on it and the words Bah Humbug…
I stopped, or quit, feeling this way, when I started to realize the significance of the event we were celebrating. It was when I realized that Christmas was NOT about our gifts to each other, but instead, it was about what the birth of Jesus was, as a gift, to all of us.
The eventual gift of salvation, because of the birth of Jesus Christ, but in the final reality of the death and resurrection, that gives all of us the eternal gift of salvation and continued life.
WOW, what a gift!!!!!!!!!
What a birthday to celebrate!!!
What a promise of eternal life beyond birthdays of once a year!!!!
Peace,
Den Betts bettsden@gmail.com
I write this on the day of MY birthday anniversary, Dec 29th.
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