Happy Birthday to Bob!

Heavenly Father,

Today we celebrate a big birthday! It's Bob's! Lord, at this place in time, all birthdays are big, beautiful and wonderful!  Thank You, thank You for a God-fearing servant leader husband, father of our precious children and friend of all.   Thank You for Bob's passion, good humor and sense of priority to be Your man and to be the spiritual leader of our family. Thank You for his commitment that is 110% and all in!  Thank You for his recovery from cardiac challenges and for his drivenness to be strong and fit.  Bless Bob all the days of his life, Lord and thank You for making Him ours!

 

I pray for my children - for all of us -  to have more and more laughter in life. I feel in love with Bob's amazing sense of humor and because he could bring laughter into any circumstance of life. We love that our family laughs together and I pray that these loved ones will make every effort to know and enjoy the healing ingredients of smiles and the warmth of laughter.   Lord, may we always laugh together for it is a true gift from You.  Bless us all with light hearts and guiltless giggles for life is good!   In Jesus' Name, Amen and Whooppeeee!

 

Proverbs 17:22  A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. 

 

^{Nehemiah 8:10-11} Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” ¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.”¹² And all the people went their way to eat and drink, to send portions and rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that were declared to them

Psalm 30:11-12  You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

God At Your Wit’s End  by Marilyn Meberg                                                                                                       Laughter serves a greater purpose than just distracting us from our misery as we do our time pressed to  the wall, It’s good medicine.  We now know laughter releases the brain’s natural painkillers, endorphins, which can be 50x more powerful than morphine. Laughter not only reduce pain, it lowers blood pressure and relaxes the skeletal frame.  A good laugh may drive us to our knees simply because the skeletal frame can no longer hold us up (some prefer that to prayer!)

Reliving the Passion – by Walter Wangerin, Jr.     

                  The difference between shallow happiness and deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It cannot stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance and of endurance into character and of character into hope – and the hope that has become our joy doesn’t disappoint us.  

 

Loved Ones, may we live with such joy that it can be seen and heard......in the glowing smiles on our faces and the delightful, soul-altering  sounds of laughter!

Always and Forever ~