Celebrate

Today we celebrate our daughter’s birthday.  It is a special day because we love her tremendously and she brings so much joy into our lives.  As I move the lens of celebration to a heavenly perspective it moves me into awe how special she is and how special her birthday is.  Who she is, whose she is, and where she has been are either an amazing series of coincidences and arbitrary happenings or it has a creator at the helm.  When I think about how her life has unfolded the sum of the parts of her journey to date are too synchronized to be just evolutionary happenstances.  She did her part of hard work, diligence, and persistence but it could not have borne the results of her life without the involvement of a creator.  She could have perhaps accomplished some of it but it is very unlikely that she could have accomplished all of it without the involvement of a creator.  A creator that orchestrated not only her life but all the lives around her.  A creator that determines when, where and how so that the timing is always perfect.  A timing perfect in our efforts in daily living.  So today, I not only celebrate my daughter’s birthday but also celebrate that she has a Creator (God) that delivers, controls and determines what is needed in her life.  A celebration of gratitude of taking care of our little girl and taking care of her future.  A celebration of gratefulness that He is there for her (behind her and in front of her) to guide her and to accomplish His plans for her.  A celebration of love for taking care of her and for his divine involvement in all that she sets out to do in thoughts, words and actions.  I celebrate her birthday and the One who breathed life into her at birth and each birthday thereafter.