Calendar Girl

Today is my birthday! I am officially Forty-one-derful! I LOVE my birthday! I hear people talk about not wanting to celebrate their birthdays, or saying how they don’t think about birthdays. To that I say PSHAW!! Forget that…today is the best day of the year and I am blessed to be alive! Plus I just love all of the attention!

But more than cake (and I loves me some cake!), cards, emails and texts, today is about a new beginning. Another year is gone and the hope of tomorrow is looming just on the horizon. I get to start fresh again. I get to start a whole new calendar today. My calendar isn’t January to December it's September to September.

And today I open a brand new calendar of time. All of the pages are crisp, clean and smells of new ink. There are no markings of things to do and places to go. Every day ahead is a new opportunity. But more importantly, the past is in the trash.

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3)
A time to be born (again in Christ), and a time to die (to self)
A time to plant (seeds of love), and a time to pluck what is planted (the harvest of God’s promises)
A time to kill (the flesh), and a time to heal (your wounds)A time to break down (walls), and a time to build up (those who are broken)
A time to weep (for lost souls), and a time to laugh (for the joy of the Lord)
A time to mourn (for those who don’t know Christ), and a time to dance (before the Lord)
A time to cast away stones (clear the fields of your mind), and a time to gather stones (build upon the foundation God has set)
A time to embrace (who God says you are), and a time to refrain from embracing (who the world says you are)A time to gain (trust and confidence in God), and a time to lose (a negative attitude)
A time to keep (your head up), and a time to throw away (trash from the past)
A time to tear (down the enemy's strongholds), and a time to sew (and mend fences)
A time to keep silence (and hear the voice of the Lord), and a time to speak (about the saving grace of Jesus Christ)
A time to love (yourself), and a time to hate (sin)
A time of war (against the enemy), and a time of peace (that surpasses all understanding)

It may not be your birthday today, but it may be time to throw away the past and start a fresh new calendar today.

In love,
Mona