Happy Birthday to me!

Today is my 44th birthday.  I feel no different than I did yesterday.  I feel no different than I did 20 years ago.  I still have the strange sense of humor, highly recognizable laugh and extremely unfortunate resting face that I have always had.  This realization has brought a new perspective on others that I wanted to share with you this morning.

I am fully aware that my 44 year old self no longer has the vim and vigor that my 24 year old self once had.  I understand that as a married mother of two I am not turning heads and inspiring whistles.  The thing is I still feel like that same person.  On the inside nothing has changed.  I do not expect that you would take one look at me and judge my abilities from my outwardly appearance but we all do it.

We look at age or weight or appearance to define our opinion about a person's worth.  You assume that because someone is too young or too old that they are not able to contribute.  You assume that because some one is overweight that they are lazy and just not trying hard enough.  You assume that because someone is covered in tattoos or piercings that they must be scary and mean.  Wrong.  Wrong. Wrong.

Just because God blessed you with high metabolism, or you haven't been on this planet as long as someone else, or you haven't had the same experiences that someone else has had makes you no better and no worse.  We are all the same.  We all breathe the same air, need some sort of sustenance to survive, get some sort of rest be it however long, and we all eventually...die.

Wealth, beauty, age....all fleeting.  Dig deeper into those around you.  Have a conversation with someone not for a reason you are comfortable with but because you have never met someone that has a horn and you want to know why they have one!

I pray that my 44th year is a good one!  I pray that I have many more trips around the sun!  I pray that I am a blessing to anyone I meet.  Life is book.  Go out today and make yours a best seller!