Dear Jesus,
Happy Birthday! I woke up this morning to the smell of coffee and special Christmas breakfast casserole that my mom makes every year as we celebrate your birth. As I laid in bed thinking about your day my heart felt like it was a bit on overload when I think about how your entrance has changed the world and how thankful I am that my heart became yours many years ago.
I will fail today in celebrating you in the perfect way you deserve. I will fail again and again in loving you the way that you perfectly love a crazy girl like me. Thank you for that love. Thank you for the hope you give my heart on days that I'm sad and confused. Thank you for your grace that covers me all the times I fall flat on my face...it is by that grace that I am able to get back up.
On your birthday, I am surrounded by the gifts you have given me...a family so special that I often have to pinch myself in gratitude to realize that I get to be their daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece & cousin. A group of friends who have shown me your love in ways my heart never knew & the opportunity to serve you through a job that I love and a job that allows me to see you work and grow in the most amazing young people. On your birthday, I stand in awe of You and the gifts you have given to me.
Thank you best friend, for all the ways you are continuing to stretch me and mold me to know you more. More than any gift I could ever open under a tree, it's my heart to unwrap more of your ways for the life you have given me & to look less like my own desires and more like you. Thank you for using me when I feel inadequate and weak, for always being my strength.
On your birthday, I give you my heart and life--a gift I will strive to give to you each and every day. Thank you for being truth and grace and for being the Savior of the World. Happy Birthday!
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6
