My Birthday Wish

Today is my birthday. Will you please help me with something in celebration of my birthday?

God has recently reminded me about how fragile our life here is. And He has started opening my eyes to what is truly important, and what will frivolously pass away.

We recently had to pack up almost all of our belongings and put them into storage as we wait for God to perform a miracle in the plan of our lives (job, house, future). Seeing everything that once seemed so important disappear before our eyes, and realizing that we indeed can live with almost none of those things, made me sick to think that our finances, desires and attentions were so misled. It is so freeing to realize that none of that is truly important.

Two years ago today (on my birthday), God started a chain of events in my life that shattered all the lies that I believed, and revealed everything that I falsely found security and self worth in. And He drew me back to Him—passionately and lovingly.

My mother has recently been diagnosed with cancer. To hear those words said to someone so close to you, and to know that there is nothing that you, yourself can do to erase that, is a wake up call in the hugest sense. This life is not in our control. It is out of our hands, and could end as we know it, at any moment. What things, people, symbols of status, comforts, LIES are you clinging to?

This year for my birthday, I do not want any gifts of material possessions; I want to ask that you help me encourage other people to stop believing the lies, to find true healing and meaning in life. Will you please join me?

I have learned in recent years that it does not take large, painful donations of money to make worthy projects happen. Instead, I see more clearly that it is in small gifts that God brings together with His amazing hands, that He brings about His plans and purposes. Will you please choose to donate $25, $10 or even save the paper of that greeting card you were going to mail to me (that I will not keep, by the way) and donate $5?

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God will not leave me alone about this; so I know that He has some plan for me in this. He seriously woke me up at 4:00 a.m. (on the ONE day, for the record, in 18 months that I have had the chance to truly savor the luxury of sleeping in) to tell me “it is time.” And as you are reading this, He already knew that you would be… I am praying for you now.