Happy Birthday to me...

Happy Birthday to me...I turned 41 yesterday. I haven't thought about it much this week. When you are in your twenties and thirties you dread the day you turn forty. At my thirty-eighth Birthday, I ended up feeling forty and so for the proceeding 2 years I got through the idea of becoming forty, sober though it was. It felt great turning 40. The timing was right to merge my youthfulness with my years of experience.
Forty- one is boring. Nothing to dread and nothing to look forward to. I am reminded of God's love for me - mainly through my wonderful family who love me so much. So I pray the "Jabez prayer" from 1Chronicles 4,

"Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. Jabez cried out to the God of Israel,

'Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.' And God granted his request."

Not only do I need God's blessing I am convinced He loves me in a way that He wants to bless me. Thank you Father for your love and kindness toward me. Stephen