31 Reasons

I’ve heard of people having birthday celebration weeks, where friends and families gather to celebrate, to shower gifts, and to make the week all about the birthday person. As someone not having the penchant for celebrating or reflecting, I figured I’ll take a stab at the latter as I turn a whopping 31 years old.

31 Reasons to Celebrate Today (well actually yesterday)

1. Another year of being part of God’s family
2. Deepening in my understanding of God’s amazing grace
3. Marrying my best friend, and starting a new chapter of life
4. Having parents who love the Lord
5. Gaining a “new” family who is full of life and fun
6. The Lord providing us with our first house
7. The Lord providing a buyer for my first home
8. The Lord providing a generous and hospitable cousin who opened up her home to us before we were able to move into our own place
9. An opportunity to be in the lives of my two nephews before they move off to China
10. An opportunity to walk through the struggles with infertility together with my sister and bro-in-law
11. And to see how the Lord has used the struggle to teach them and to shape them
12. An amazing year in New Orleans with an incredible ministry team in New Orleans (which I’m really sad to have to leave) being a part of history in rebuilding the city physically and spiritually
13. Being able to move back to Austin. The city I love, in the State that I love!
14. Being on yet another summer project
15. Seeing students share their faith for the first time
16. Seeing students lead someone to Christ for their first time
17. And this is my job!!!
18. Seeing God provide for us each month through faithful supporters
19. Seeing people increase their support out of faith to give towards our growing needs as a family
20. That God continues to provide after 8 years of being on staff
21. Steak and Sushi (my birthday meal)
22. Popeyes (my early bday celebration with friends in Austin before we left for Ohio)
23. Facebook – never had so many happy birthday wishes ever in my life
24. Learning to remember the important things in life through my friends and family who have been touched by cancer this year
25. Friends who were generous in flying out to be at my wedding
26. Friends who committed to stand with me on that day and in days to come
27. That I would be so lucky to marry a woman like Amber
28. Someone who’s got an incredible heart of compassion
29. Someone who loves to be creative
30. Someone who loves to understand my heart
31. Someone who loves ME!

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Posted by Truman