God Bless You As You Celebrate...

I have four friends celebrating birthdays today!

A 70th, a 61st, a 50th, and a sweet young 30-something 💝

Happy Birthday, Karen, Debbie, Kim and Paula!

All of you have enriched my life immensely!

Esp. in the past 5 mos. 🙏

God bless you are you celebrate.

God bless you as you celebrate the gift each birthday brings

An opportunity to count the gifts we sometimes miss

For life is full of cares crowding to cloud love's finer things

Caught between hello hugs that lead to farewell's tender kiss

God bless you as you celebrate each face-to-face delight 

Let a firm handshake steal your breath, let laughter make you cry

With joy and thankfulness for everybody you hold tight

And never take for granted looking loved ones in the eye

God bless you are you celebrate another year complete

Where highs and lows collect in settled dust of Past, surreal 

And Today, Happy Birthday, grants a milestone, bittersweet

Because no one can hold at bay, Time's hastening appeal 

 

God bless you as you celebrate the give and take of love

And make the most of Here and Now, because we cannot see

How near or far we are to where the Soul slips off its glove

And leaves behind the precious treasure of A Memory

Love, from Janet 

And to all of us who have or will, 

Lord willing, celebrate a birthday this year!

Author unknown for the poem below...