HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR LENITA YVONNE WILLIAMS WESSON......

The beauty in God and how he shows up is that it rarely looks like what I expect.  I have been celebrating my birthday in small ways for at least 3 weeks, and it's been a delight.  It's been that impromptu lunch with someone I've been wanting to chat with and get to know; or the rehearsal time for Grace's play that I've used to do some studying/reading during an hour that would have otherwise been filled; or the chats with Dale to catch up when we've been running on all cylinders but in different directions.  While those are not the typical or even ideal forms of "celebration" for ones birthday, they are ways that enrich and uplift me and simply....make me smile.

More than 200 of my Facebook friends thought enough of me to say Happy Birthday.  WOW!!!!! Thank you!  I got text messages and phone calls and lunches and a day off and a chance to see my daughter, Grace, perform in her first school musical and a night out with girlfriends and sushi and time to reflect and champagne toasts and hugs and kisses and perfume and flowers and cards...I love cards....yes...I got cards.  Grateful is probably overused, but I stay there because it's so easy to venture into bitter and jealous and angry and guilty and ashamed and ....pick an adjective.  So, my thought is to be Grateful.  That way, I get to acknowledge God's greatness, and I get to smile in spite of and because of who I am. 

Happy Birthday to me!  It is well with my soul...even in my early 40's ;o)


EXPECT MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER THINK OR IMAGINE!