Happy Birthday to Me

Today I am 36 and I don't know if I thought this is where I'd be (say 20 years ago when I knew everything at 16) but

"When I look back over my life
and I think things o-o-ver
I can tru-ly say
that I've been blessed
I have a test-i-mo-oh-ny!"

Thank you to the Rev. Clay Evans & The AARC Mass Choir for that song! It so fits what I can say about today, or about the past 36 years.

Take today. I got to spend the day doing something I would only have dreamed about 20 years ago when I "knew everything": I edited film, that I directed, for an upcoming production that I wrote. Ok, true, it's an amateur production to be performed at church for 3 nights at the end of this month, but I got to do this today. God gave me an incredibly cool idea and the means to carry it out creatively!!! That's a gift from Him, no doubt about it. So is the faith to give Him the credit, something else I didn't do 20 years ago, when I knew nothing.

Another great gift from Him: I have a great family from my own parents down to my spouse and son. I certainly had no idea about those two people 20 years ago, either.

Yeah. I can truly say that I've been blessed, I have a testimony! In this space I will try to elaborate.