YAY, GOD, FOR MAKING ME!

Happy Birthday to me!

Yeah, God, for making me!

I have so much to be thankful for.  It was a miracle I was born – alive and healthy.  I survived a divisive home life.  I survived a debilitating sickness at age 30.  I survived domestic abuse and a contentious divorce.  I survived a major depressive episode, panic attacks and debilitating anxiety.  A herniated disk did not keep me down.  Slander and robbery did not defeat me.  I’m a Survivor.  Even more – I’m an OVERCOMER!

Jesus did not say we would merely survive our troubles.  He said: “Be of good cheer because I have overcome the world.”  We don’t just have enough, but we have “exceedingly, abundantly beyond” all we could ask or think.”  We do not just get along, but we are made “more than conquerors” through Him who loved us.

So my TRIBUTE today

Is to Jesus Christ

Who has raised me up

From all these troubles

And promised for my

Future that:

“Surely goodness and mercy

Will follow me

All the days of my life,

And I will dwell in the

House of the Lord

Forever.”