HAVE YOU EVER...been downsized?

Today is my birthday!  I love birthdays and the 3 people that live in my house know it.  We celebrate birthdays for the whole month.  Luckily, none of us have to share a month.  I use our birthdays constantly as an excuse to have more fun!

Birthdays have been downsized!  Everything always has to be fair for everyone or PC.  I am sure that your work place has a policy about celebrating or not celebrating birthdays.  Schools sure have changed.  It went from each child practically having a party to prepackaged snacks to no snacks at all.  (I am not griping about kids with allergies.  My son use to have a food allergy in which he grew out.  I understand that concern.)  It is just a little sad for kids in school now.

I went to the Bible to see what it said about birthdays.  There were three Bible stories I found.  On Pharaoh’s birthday in Genesis 40, Joseph had foretold of Pharaoh killing his head baker.  Then it happened.  In Job, his children are all killed during a birthday party when the house falls on them.  Matthew 14 is when Herod had John the Baptist beheaded on his birthday.  That’s sad too!

I know that we live in an entitled world.  I also know that the McDonald’s Super Size has sorely affected our country.  Let’s think about Super Size in a different way.  Have you shown someone love today for no reason?  Have you helped someone you don’t even know?  I heard on the radio this week that people who volunteer are happier people.  Think about how you like to be treated on your birthday.  Think about Super Sizing someone today!

Do to others as you would have them do to you.  Luke 6:31

HAVE YOU EVER been Super Sized?

Psalm 138:14, James 1:18