{"id":3897,"date":"2025-12-28T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:51:16","slug":"birthday-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2025\/12\/birthday-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my birthday week.\u00a0\u00a0Lots of free and discounted meals.\u00a0\u00a0Can\u2019t believe I lived this long.\u00a0\u00a0Outlived all of my family except a few younger cousins. For several years I\u2019ve said I\u2019m ready to go whenever God is finished with me on earth.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently, God is not finished with me yet.\u00a0\u00a0Either that or my heavenly mansion is not yet ready for occupancy.\u00a0\u00a0Meanwhile, here are ten of my favorite birthday quotes plus my latest life-verse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.&#8221; \u2014 Robert Browning<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEventually you reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.&#8221; \u2014 Will Rogers<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou know you&#8217;re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake.\u201d \u2014 Jerry Seinfeld<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJust remember, once you&#8217;re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.&#8221; \u2014 Charles Schulz<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou know you&#8217;re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.&#8221; \u2014 Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.&#8221; \u2014 Betty White<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow old would you be if you didn&#8217;t know how old you are?&#8221; \u2014 Satchel Paige<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGrowing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.\u201d \u2013 Walt Disney<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.\u201d \u2013 Job 12:12, CSB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And my latest life-verse &#8211; \u201cO God, You have taught me from my youth; and to this day I declare Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come.\u201d &#8211; Psalm 71:17-18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my birthday week.\u00a0\u00a0Lots of free and discounted meals.\u00a0\u00a0Can\u2019t believe I lived this long.\u00a0\u00a0Outlived all of my family except a few younger cousins. For several years I\u2019ve said I\u2019m ready to go whenever God is finished with me on earth.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently, God is not finished with me yet.\u00a0\u00a0Either that or my heavenly mansion is not&#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":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_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-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","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=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}