{"id":3607,"date":"2024-12-30T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2024-12-30T06:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:12:59","slug":"birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2024\/12\/birthdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birthdays are special days, at least for most people.\u00a0 My early birthday parties seemed to be occasions for other people to celebrate.\u00a0 I remember a birthday party at Playland Park in Houston, the predecessor of AstroWorld. My friends had a great time.\u00a0 I failed to understood why the first stop was the Hot Dog stand and the second stop was the Roller Coaster.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been amused by amusement parks. On another birthday, my party consisted of riding horses.\u00a0 I never liked horses, and the feeling seemed to be mutual.\u00a0 Surprise birthday parties were the worst.\u00a0 I only liked surprises when I was the one providing the surprise.\u00a0 But in spite of my early dislike of birthday parties, I do have a few favorite birthday quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/176079?ref=birthday\">In the end, it&#8217;s not the years in your life that count. It&#8217;s the life in your years.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/8880-Abraham_Lincoln\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/298586?ref=birthday\">Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don&#8217;t mind, it doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/14883-Mark_Twain\">Mark Twain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/223433?ref=birthday\">How old would you be if you didn&#8217;t know how old you are?<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/11247-Satchel_Paige\">Satchel Paige<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/127346?ref=birthday\">Age is not important unless you&#8217;re a cheese.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/6433-Helen_Hayes\">Helen Hayes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/quote\/435201?ref=birthday\">Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know \u201cwhy\u201d I look this way. I\u2019ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren\u2019t paved.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azquotes.com\/author\/12553-Will_Rogers\">Will Rogers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one\u2019s bones and cragginess of one\u2019s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.\u201d Maya Angelou<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou know you\u2019re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.\u201d \u00a0Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou\u2019ve logged so many miles in the voyage of life that you\u2019ve been upgraded to first class!\u201d \u00a0Evelyn Loeb<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.\u201d G. K. Chesterton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why have I devoted this Monday Morning Manna to birthdays?\u00a0 Because this Monday, December 30 is my birthday. \u00a0As I aged, I received a new special verse \u2013 \u201cNow\u00a0also when\u00a0I\u00a0am\u00a0old\u00a0and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, until\u00a0I\u00a0declare Your strength to\u00a0this\u00a0generation, Your power to everyone\u00a0who\u00a0is to come\u201d (Psalm 71:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birthdays are special days, at least for most people.\u00a0 My early birthday parties seemed to be occasions for other people to celebrate.\u00a0 I remember a birthday party at Playland Park in Houston, the predecessor of AstroWorld. My friends had a great time.\u00a0 I failed to understood why the first stop was the Hot Dog stand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}