HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME !

A friend of mine said: Be happy you've got birthdays!  It means you're still alive!

Love it!  ... and I really am still alive, and loving the life God is giving me.

Since this is my 71st birthday, it is so appropriate for me to quote some of my keystone verses from Psalm 71, as I praise and thank God for his goodness and faithfulness to me:

"Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may continually come ...
 

"You, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, from my youth.  Upon you have I leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb ...
 

"I have been as a signpost to many, but you are my strong refuge.  My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.

 

 

"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not leave me when my strength is spent..

From my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.  So even to old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, and your power to all those to come ...

 

"You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.  You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. ...

 

 

 

I spoiled myself today:  I made a reservation at a lovely Brussels restaurant for lunch, and what a lunch!  The service, the flavours and the décor were impeccable.  I told the waiter it was my birthday and so I was treating myself ... and at the end of the meal, a beautiful silver tray arrived at my table with a framed "Joyeux Anniversaire", flowers and chocolate.  And they took my picture so I'll share it with you.

 

 

And at end of the day, my niece Rebekah who is here teaching this year, took me out for dinner to a traditional little Brussels hideaway restaurant with Belgian food, called 'T Spinnekopke (The Spider's Web).

 

 

 

I have been wrapped around with love in all sorts of forms on this special day.  I am truly blessed.