As a child I always fantasized about my future. Like all little girls I had it all planned out. I'd be married by 24, have my first child at 27 ... but I always said that I would only live to 37. It was strange, but I never was able to imagine life after 37.
Well, this spring when I was lying in my hospital bed I feared my childhood premonitions were going to come true. But God has smiled down on me! I woke up this morning having made it to 38! My kids all ran into my room and piled onto the bed. They had made a variety of birthday gifts for me ... some made from little knicknacks from my childhood they found in my old sewing kit. Isaac made a necklace of buttons and beads ... a couple of the buttons from my mother's collection. Nita found an old charm of mine. They also found a fridge magnet I made as a Girl Scout. How ironic that my childhood memories are following me into my life I never expected to live!
Today my nephew, Christopher, is being baptized in the very church my parents had Kristie and I baptized many years ago. He and I will forever share this day ... a day of promise and hope!
Thank you God for giving me this day! Onward to my future!
Until Tomorrow,
Kathy ... marching towards 39!
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