The Birthday Gift

My birthday week (yes we just don't celebrate birthdays but weeks) turned out to be a whole lot of fun and laughter --- a reunion with my Senate friends, an overnight stay in a resort full of heritage houses, a pakain in the office pantry, a dinner with 3 good friends, a fundraising event for a law school classmate running for party list representative, a half day MCLE, a visit to the hospital where a cousin with cancer is confined, dinner with relatives and tonight will be dinner with my siblings. The best way to cap it all off is to have a new Pope named during my natal day itself.

The best gift I received was to be able to pray to the Nazareno which was to be moved back on the 13th. Happiness engulfed me that time so much so that I wanted to cry right there and then. God does work in mysterious ways and I am thankful that He has chosen to be merciful and gracious towards me.

Thank you Lord for 39 years! Onwards to the future!