Birthdays and water on the ground

When young, it seemed like you had to wait a whole year -- an entire year -- for your birthday.

But now, birthdays come and go so fast they seem like, well, wasn't the last one just a month ago?

When young, you looked forward to all the great things you're going to do.

But now, the days seem to have seeped out between our fingers like so much water onto the ground. We can never re-gather water. In fact, even if we could, it wouldn't be there; it's evaporated.

This also is one of the great sadnesses of life.

So on what basis can we wish "Happy Birthday?"

Well, that water may be evaporated. But if we know anything of God's ways, that water is not gone. It is in other forms: in the life of others, in their moral compasses, in showers of blessing.

Happy Birthday, Valerie

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2 Samuel 14.14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

John 15.16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.