the day after a birthday....

Do you ever wake up the day after your birthday and have to remind yourself that you did indeed have a birthday because you don't FEEL any different? That is what 31 did for me! I don't have any new aches and pains nor do I think there are any new wrinkles but I guess the key word would be YET! lol...I don't mind the numbers to be honest with you because I have an 87 year old grandpa who has shown me that the fountain of youth is in how you live...by your outlook on life...by being thankful...by spending time with God, family, and friends! I love looking young but I am more interested in aging gracefully and concentrating on keeping my spirit young rather than the physical....Abraham Lincoln once said: It is not the number of years in your life, but the life in your years that counts! That is my goal...to have as much of a life in whatever number of years I am given, so that even if I do not live to be a young 87 year old, that I will have lived as much as I possibly could!!!!

Live life and love it!

Life has the ability to slip away so fast if we don't reach out and grab hold of the opportunity to really live! Christmas time this year has so many meanings that I didn't understand before....I have been places I never dreamed I would visit...met people, not even able to speak the same language as me, who love me better than people I have known my whole life! It sends a shiver of excitment to think that I walked where Moses, Joseph, and even Jesus as a little child walked!!!! God is as real today as He was in those times...Amazing! After seeing the way Egypt is now its not so hard to imagine it as it would have been when Mary and Joseph went there! (minus a lot of fast moving cars!) Take the opportunity to really live or if you can't, give the opportunity to someone else, but don't just let life slip away! Live and love it!