birthday – the daysman

happy birthday to me

Travel does not just make me grateful for the many privileges I have at home, but for the richness of creation and the hospitality of strangers.

I’m grateful to travel with her, and to celebrate her clicking off one more decade.

I reached level 64 today. I’m glad it’s a multiplayer game. It wouldn’t be as much fun or as rewarding if you had to play alone.

It’s not enough to avoid bad influences. You have to surround yourself with better ones.

So many things I can’t change, so many things I can’t do over, and yet He is Himself a quiet habitation, a sure foundation, a shelter in any storm.