The Lord your God is with you..
He will take great delight in you..
he will rejoice over you with singing.
---- Zephaniah 3:17

haha.. reposting again.

it was only after reading this from a card sent by a brother and sister.. that it finally dawned upon me.

ok, i admit i never liked celebrating my birthday. in particular, i was dreading this day of this year, what with 7 being an auspicious number to the Chinese and Biblical reference of perfection.. and everyone harping on this big hoo-ha over nothing.. "you should buy lottery today!" "are you getting married today?" not funny. almost wished i weren't born on it.. and resolved to play it down as any other day.

until it struck me.. a birthday is not just for the cake or presents or celebration for celebration's sake. it's the day that God chose for you to be born, it signifies creation, the start of a grand plan, a perfect plan, that was uniquely created some years ago, just for you and you alone. isn't it wondrous, that He created each and every one of us, for a purpose, that we were born on this very day some time ago, for a special reason? isn't it wondrous, that we were first showered with the Lord's love, on this very day years ago? isn't that the real reason for celebrating a birth-day?

oddly, or perhaps as some of you may have expected, it is only on this first birthday as a Christian, am i truly celebrating = )