It's my birthday! Or as Annie K put it so beautifully, my continuation day. :) I have always loved birthdays, and I think it is really important to take a day (well, at least the one!) to celebrate yourself, all that you are, hope to be and have been. I know many people who do not celebrate their birthdays, who don't make a fuss and think of it as just another day, but I wholeheartedly disagree! Birthdays are fantastic! It reminds us to celebrate life - both ours and those of others who love and celebrate us.
There is so much to be grateful for in our lives - and the challenge lies therein to find something to be grateful for every day, especially on those days when it seems that everything is going wrong for us. I try to remember to think of at least three things to be grateful for every night before I go to sleep. Sometimes it's hard! But then I go back to basics - health, family, friends, food, a warm and comfortable home. And soon I realise - even on my darkest, brattiest, Debra Morgan-vocabulary-est days - that my life is blessed beyond measure. That I already have everything that I need. That I already AM everything I need to be. And that things can only get better.
Bless yourself today, and take a moment to thank yourself for everything that you are, and everything that you have manifested in your life. I can guarantee that the sun will shine just a little brighter.
Happy my birthday, everybody! Sending love to fill every space in this great and infinite universe of ours!
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