Today is my Birthday. It is a good day to reflect on my life. I am thankful for God allowing me to live 37 years, and I look forward to many more to learn and grow. I am excited to see where God has brought me. I don't always allow myself to believe it, but I really am a much stronger, more confident and joyful person these days.

I have been reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge, and it has been making revisit my past. There is a quote in there that I really liked. "Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin. That is where my life was about three years ago. I am so glad that God helped me to see that.

I would not be where I am today without my relationship with God. I grow closer to him each day. That is because I have learned the importance of prayer. I use to think of prayer as just a way to ask God for something. That is not what it is all about, He wants us to pray becuase He just wants a relationship with us. We are doing a study at church about prayer and there is a quote in there, from last Wednesday's lesson that I just loved. "Prayer is not casting a fishing line with a hook toward God to catch from Him a blessing, but to cast a line toward God so that He might pull ourselves closer to HIm." -Theodore Cuyler

These are just thoughts on my mind today. I am feeling so blessed and full of joy today. It is easy with this bright beautiful sunshine today. I know it is cold, that is why I am enjoying the sun through the windows of my house.

Have a blessed day!