Hi Everyone. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
Today is my Birthday! I am a happy 56 years (young), thank you.
Guess who called me the very first thing this morning? My totally borg, little 78 yr old moma. (I love her dearly, but she can really get on my case about the last days, and how I'm the living dead, etc. etc.) This morning, she said everything to me except the words Happy Birthday. She used the words birth date, and said how happy she was that I came into her life! That I was her firstborn daughter in 1946. She said how sorry she was for the way my life had been for so long when I was small. Of course, I told her that the past was the past, and that we do well to just dwell on the happy memories. I think she appreciated that. It was a good conversation and made me smile inside. The last thing she told me was that she loved me very much and hoped I had a very special day.
This is so very significant to me. Not only the fact that she called ON my birthday, but that she even mentioned my birth in the way she did.. She has NEVER BEFORE done this since becoming a JW in 1959. She was so very sweet and kind to me today. I said to her, "mom, you have to know just how much this means to me, that you would call me today"....and she said, " I DO know, and that's why I called you".
This will be a birthday that I will remember for a long, long time!
Love and Light,
Sentinel